Isibhasiyaim 11

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I/6 vakkalacīri-nām' ajjhayaṇaṃ. /
tam eva uvarate mātanga-saḍḍhe kāya-bhedāti āyatitam udāhare ||*1||
deva-dāṇavāṇumataṃ. teṇemaṃ khalu bho lokaṃ saṇarāmaraṃ ||*2||
vasīkatam eva maṇṇāmi, tam ahaṃ bemi. viyatta-vāgalacīriṇā ||*3||
arahatā isiṇā buitaṃ. ||*4||
-a -ārī-gaṇa-pasatte | appaṇo ya abandhave! /
purisā! jatto vi vaccaha | tatto vi judhire jaṇe ||1||
-irankuse va mātange | chiṇṇa-rassī hae vi vā /
-āṇa-ppaggaha-pabhaṭhe | vividhaṃ pavate -are ||2||
-āvā akaṇṇadhārā va | sāgare vāyuṇeritā /
cancalā dhāvate -āvā | sabhāvāo akovitā ||3||
mukkaṃ pupphaṃ va āgāse | -irādhāre tu se -are /
daḍha-sumbaṇṇibaddhe tu | vihare balavaṃ vihiṃ ||4||
sutta-metta-gatiṃ c' eva | gantukāme vi se jahā /
evaṃ laddhā vi sam-maggaṃ | sabhāvāo akovite ||5||
jaṃ tu paraṃ -avaehiṃ | ambare vā vihaṃgame /
daḍha-suttaṇṇibaddhe tti | ||6||
-āṇa-ppaggaha-saṃbandhe | dhitimaṃ paṇihit' indie /
sutta-metta-gatī c' eva | tadhā sādhū -irangaṇe ||7||
sacchanda-gati-payārā | jīvā saṃsāra-sāgare /
kamma-saṃtāṇa-saṃbaddhā | hiṇḍanti vivihaṃ bhavaṃ ||8||
itthī-'ugiddhe vasae | appaṇo ya abandhave /
jatto vi vajjatī purise | tatto vi judhire jaṇe /
mannatī mukkam appāṇaṃ, | paḍibaddhe palāyate ||9||
viyatte bhagavaṃ vakkalacīri ugga-tave tti. ||*5||
evaṃ siddhe buddhe ... -o puṇar-avi icc-atthaṃ havvam āgacchati tti bemi. ||*6||
|| chaṭham vakkalacīri-nām' ajjhayaṇaṃ. ||6||

Chapter 6, named after Vakkalacīrin.
He indeed has ceased [from worldly ties], attached to the outcaste woman; at the dissolution of the body, let him declare the future. ||*1
Approved by gods and demons. Truly, sirs, this world together with mortals and immortals ||*2
I consider to be completely subjugated; that I declare. By the renowned Vakkalacīrin, ||*3
the arhat seer, it was spoken: ||*4
Do not become attached to the company of women, [which is] no friend to oneself!
O men, wherever you go, there people are in turmoil! ||1
Like an elephant without a goad, or a horse with a broken rein,
fallen away from the bridle of knowledge, a man falls in various ways. ||2
Like a boat without a helmsman, driven by the wind on the ocean,
the unsteady boat drifts, naturally unguided. ||3
Like a released flower in the sky, unsupported indeed is that man;
bound firmly by cord, however, he would endure powerful fate. ||4
Just as one, though wishing to go, has only the range of the string,
so even having attained the right path, one is naturally inexpert. ||5
Just as a bird in the sky [restrained] by further cords,
bound firmly by string [...] ||6
fastened by the bridle of knowledge, resolute, with controlled senses,
moving only within the measure of the thread, so is the passionless monk. ||7
Moving and acting according to their own desires, living beings in the ocean of saṃsāra,
bound to the continuum of karma, wander through various births. ||8
He lives lusting for women, which is no friend to oneself;
wherever a man goes, there people are in turmoil;
he thinks himself free, yet bound he runs away. ||9
Thus the renowned, blessed Vakkalacīrin of fierce penance [said]. ||*5
Thus perfected, enlightened ... does not again return at once to this state: so I say. ||*6
|| Sixth chapter, named after Vakkalacīrin. ||6