thig3.4:0.1Verses of the Senior Nuns 3.4
thig3.4:0.2The Book of the Threes
thig3.4:0.3Dantikā
thig3.4:1.1Leaving my day’s meditation
thig3.4:1.2on Vulture’s Peak Mountain,
thig3.4:1.3I saw an elephant on the riverbank
thig3.4:1.4having just come up from his bath.
thig3.4:2.1A man, taking a pole with a hook,
thig3.4:2.2asked the elephant, “Give me your foot.”
thig3.4:2.3The elephant presented his foot,
thig3.4:2.4and the man mounted him.
thig3.4:3.1Seeing a wild beast so tamed,
thig3.4:3.2submitting to human control,
thig3.4:3.3my mind became serene:
thig3.4:3.4that is why I’ve gone to the forest!