..It seems that as the Elder was on his way from Cetiyapabbata to Anurādhapura for alms, a certain daughter-in-law of a clan, who had
quarrelled with her husband and had set out early from Anurādhapura had
dressed up and tricked out like a celestial nymph to go to her relatives’
home, saw him on the road, and being low-minded, she laughed a loud
laugh. (Wondering) “What is that?”, the Elder looked up, and finding in the
bones of her teeth the perception of foulness, he reached Arahatship.
Hence it was said:
"He saw the bones that were her teeth,
And kept in mind his first perception;
And standing on that very spot,
The Elder became an Arahat."
And kept in mind his first perception;
And standing on that very spot,
The Elder became an Arahat."
But her husband who was going after
her saw the Elder
and asked "Venerable sir, did you by any chance
see a woman?" The Elder told him:
her saw the Elder
and asked "Venerable sir, did you by any chance
see a woman?" The Elder told him:
"Whether it was a man or woman
That went by I noticed not;
But only that on this high road
There goes a group of bones."
That went by I noticed not;
But only that on this high road
There goes a group of bones."
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