[29] 1. "Splendid is your glory and your beauty (vaṇṇa); it illumines every quarter.
Women dance and sing, and young gods (devaputta), adorned,
rejoice and attend upon you in your honour, O devatā.
These mansions (vimāna) of yours are of gold, O lady fair to behold;
and you are sovereign over these, which abound in every pleasure.
Nobly born, you are great; you rejoice in the host of devas.
O devatā, when you are asked, declare: of what kamma is this the fruit?"
"When I was a human being among humans,
I was a daughter-in-law in a family without virtue;
among the faithless and the miserly
I was endowed with faith and virtue.
[1]
As you were walking for alms, I gave you a cake;
I gave [2] the cake to him, confident, with my own hands.
At this my mother-in-law reviled me: 'You are an undisciplined daughter-in-law!
You did not wish to ask me — "I am giving to the ascetic (samaṇa)!"'
Then my mother-in-law, enraged, struck me with a pestle;
she hit me on the point of the shoulder (kuṭaṅgacchi); I could not live long.
And with the breaking up of the body I was released; passing away from there,
I arose in the companionship of the devas of Tāvatiṃsa.
Because of that my beauty is such …
and my beauty shines in every direction."
The Uḷāra Mansion, the first.
# 1 The Po., M., and Yu. editions read [in addition]: "tadāhaṃ sassuyācikkhiṃ, samaṇo āgato idha" — "Then I told my mother-in-law: 'An ascetic has come here.'" 2 M., Yu.: "adāsahaṃ."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.