Muttā (2nd)

I’m well freed, so very well freed,*Compare with Thig 2.3 and Thag 1.43.freed from the three things that humped me:*The commentary explains that the first two things make you crooked: (khujjakaraṇahetutāya tadubhayaṁ “khujja”nti vuttaṁ), while the husband is crooked (a hunchback). This may be so, but I think it is a double entendre.the mortar, the pestle,*The mortar and pestle feature prominently in the sexual imagery of Rig Veda 1.29, where the kitchen implements are analogized with the pressing of soma on the altar. Both musala and “pestle” derive from roots “to pound”.and my humpbacked husband.I’m freed from birth and death;the leash to existence is eradicated.

“Sumuttā sādhumuttāmhi, tīhi khujjehi muttiyā; Udukkhalena musalena, patinā khujjakena ca; Muttāmhi jātimaraṇā, bhavanetti samūhatā”ti.

I’m well freed, so very well freed,*Compare with Thig 2.3 and Thag 1.43.“Sumuttā sādhumuttāmhi, freed from the three things that humped me:*The commentary explains that the first two things make you crooked: (khujjakaraṇahetutāya tadubhayaṁ “khujja”nti vuttaṁ), while the husband is crooked (a hunchback). This may be so, but I think it is a double entendre.tīhi khujjehi muttiyā; the mortar, the pestle,*The mortar and pestle feature prominently in the sexual imagery of Rig Veda 1.29, where the kitchen implements are analogized with the pressing of soma on the altar. Both musala and “pestle” derive from roots “to pound”.Udukkhalena musalena, and my humpbacked husband.patinā khujjakena ca; I’m freed from birth and death;Muttāmhi jātimaraṇā, the leash to existence is eradicated.bhavanetti samūhatā”ti.