[440] 2. Intoxicated with my complexion, with my figure,
with my beauty and with my fame,
and haughty with my youth,
I despised other women.
Having adorned this body—all brightly painted, a beguiler of fools—
I stood at the brothel door,
as a hunter who has laid out a snare.
Displaying my ornaments,
with much that should be hidden laid bare,
I worked my manifold wiles,
jeering at many a person.
Today that same one, having walked for alms,
shaven-headed, wrapped in the outer robe (saṅghāṭi),
sits at the foot of a tree—
an obtainer of the state without thought (avitakka).
All bonds (yoga) have been entirely cut off,
those divine and those human;
having exhausted all the taints (āsava),
I have become cool, quenched.
Vimalā, the former courtesan.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.