[554] Then it occurred to the bhikkhunī Vajirā: "Now who is this that speaks the verse — a human or a non-human?"
Then it occurred to the bhikkhunī Vajirā: "This is Māra the Evil One, who speaks the verse desiring to arouse fear, trepidation, and terror in me, desiring to make me fall away from concentration (samādhi)."
Then the bhikkhunī Vajirā, having understood, "This is Māra the Evil One," addressed Māra the Evil One in verses:
"Why now do you assume 'a being'?
Māra, is that a speculative view of yours?
This is a heap of sheer formations (saṅkhāra):
no being is found here.
For just as, with an assemblage of parts,
the word 'chariot' is used,
so, when the aggregates (khandha) exist,
there is the convention 'a being.'
It is only suffering (dukkha) that comes to be,
suffering that stands and passes away;
nothing other than suffering comes to be,
nothing other than suffering ceases."
Then Māra the Evil One, realizing, "The bhikkhunī Vajirā knows me," sad and dejected, vanished right there.
The Bhikkhunīsaṃyutta is concluded.
The summary (uddāna) thereof:
Āḷavikā and Somā, Gotamī together with Vijayā,
Uppalavaṇṇā and Cālā, Upacālā, Sīsupacālā,
Selā — and with Vajirā, these are the ten.
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Brahmasaṃyutta
The First Chapter
1. The Āyācana Sutta
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.