150 PSAUIS OF THE SISTERS

So hath my Master ordained in the precepts we
honour and follow;

So hath the Welcome One taught in the training
wherein they have trained me,

Purified discipline holy. Why standest thou block-
ing my pathway ? (368)

Me pure, thou impure of heart ;Tjne passionless, thou
of vile passions ;

Me who as to the whole of me freed am in spirit
and blameless,

Me whence comes it that Thou dost hinder, stand-
ing obnoxious V (369)

4 Young art thou, maiden, and faultless—what

seekest thou in the holy life ?
Cast off that yellow-hued raiment and come ! in

the blossoming woodland
Seek we our pleasure. Filled with the incense of

blossoms the trees waft (370)
Sweetness. See, the spring's at the prime, the

season of happiness!
Come with me then to the flowering woodland, and

seek we our pleasure. (371)
Sweet overhead is the sough of the blossoming

crests of the forest
Swayed by the Wind-gods. But an thou goest

alone in the jungle,
Lost in its depths, how wilt thou find aught to

delight or content thee ? ^(372)
Haunted is the great forest with many a herd of

wild creatures,
Broken its peace by the tramplings of elephants

rutting and savage.