[24] 7.
"You who stand with surpassing beauty (vaṇṇa), O goddess (devatā),
illuminating all the directions like the star Osadhī —
by what means is such beauty yours? …
and your beauty shines in all directions?"
That goddess, elated at being questioned by Moggallāna,
… of what deed this is the fruit:
"As 'Uposathā' they knew me, a laywoman (upāsikā) in Sāketa,
endowed with faith (saddhā) and virtue (sīla), ever delighting in sharing.
Clothing and food, lodging and lamps
I gave, with a mind of perfect confidence, to those of upright nature.
On the fourteenth, the fifteenth, and the eighth day of the fortnight,
and during the special period (pāṭihāriyapakkha),
I kept the uposatha observance well furnished with its eight factors,
ever well restrained in virtue —
abstaining from the destruction of life, restrained from false speech,
far removed from theft, from unchastity, and from the drinking of intoxicants,
delighting in the five training rules (sikkhāpada), skilled in the noble truths (ariyasacca) —
a laywoman of the glorious Gotama, the One with Vision.
Because of that such beauty is mine …
and my beauty shines in all directions."
"Hearing again and again of Nandana, desire (chanda) arose in me;
having set my mind (citta) upon it, I have been reborn in Nandana.
I did not carry out the word of the Teacher, the Buddha, Kinsman of the Sun;
having set my mind on what is inferior, afterwards I am filled with remorse."
"For how long will you dwell here in the mansion (vimāna), Uposathā?
O goddess, being asked, tell us, if you know the lifespan."
"Having remained here sixty thousand years [1], O great sage,
passing away from here, I shall go to companionship with human beings."
"Do not be afraid, Uposathā: by the Fully Awakened One you have been declared
a stream-enterer (sotāpanna); you have attained distinction; your bad destination (duggati) has been abandoned."
The Uposatha Mansion, the seventh.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.