[25] 8.
"With surpassing beauty (vaṇṇa), O devatā, you stand,
illuminating all the quarters like the healing star.
By what is such beauty yours? …
and [why does] your beauty shine in all directions?"
That devatā, delighted when questioned by Moggallāna,
… of what deed this is the fruit:
"As 'Suniddā' they knew me, a laywoman (upāsikā) in Rājagaha,
endowed with faith and virtue (sīla), ever delighting in sharing.
[Source footnote 1: The Burmese and European editions read "tisso ca vassakoṭiyo" — "and three koṭis of years."]
Clothing and food, lodging and lamps
I gave to those who are upright, with a clear and confident mind.
On the fourteenth, the fifteenth, and the eighth day of the fortnight,
and on the special fortnight (pāṭihāriyapakkha),
I observed the Uposatha complete with its eight factors,
ever well restrained in virtue;
abstaining from the destruction of life, and restrained as to false speech,
far removed from theft, from adultery, and from the drinking of intoxicants,
delighting in the five training precepts (sikkhāpada), proficient in the noble truths (ariyasacca) —
a laywoman of the glorious Gotama, the One with Vision.
Because of that is such beauty mine, …
and my beauty shines in all directions."
The Suniddā Vimāna, the eighth.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.