སྟག་རྣའ་རྟགས་པ་བརྗད་པ 7

7

Once he knew that the parents of the outcaste girl Prakṛti had left, the Blessed One asked the outcaste girl Prakṛti, “Prakṛti, do you want to be with the monk Ānanda?”

“I want to be with him, Blessed One. I want to be with him, Well-Gone One.”

“If so, Prakṛti, then you should adopt the attire of the monk Ānanda.”

“I will adopt it, Blessed One. I will adopt it, Well-Gone One. Please allow me to go forth, Blessed One. Please allow me to go forth, Well-Gone One.”

Then the Blessed One said to the outcaste girl Prakṛti,⁵¹ “Come, nun, live the spiritual life.”

When this was said, the outcaste girl Prakṛti had her hair shaven off and became clad in yellow ochre robes by the Blessed One.⁵²

When he had thus turned the outcaste girl Prakṛti into a nun and allowed her to go forth, the Blessed One instructed, encouraged, uplifted, and inspired her with a dharmic talk. It was a talk to be heard as a remedy for sentient beings who have been stuck in saṃsāra for a long time, that is, a talk about generosity, a talk about ethical conduct, a talk about the heavens, about the dangers associated with sense pleasures,⁵³ about finding release, about the perils, about the mental afflictions, defilement, and purification, and about the factors pertaining to awakening—these were the things that the Blessed One fully explained to the nun Prakṛti.

Instructed, encouraged, uplifted, and inspired with a dharmic talk⁵⁴ by the Blessed One, the nun Prakṛti had a mind that was elated, propitious, rejoicing, without hindrances, upright, and without rigidity, by which she became ready to understand the teaching of the Dharma.⁵⁵