horripilation, & terror in me, wanting to make me fall away from concentration." Then, having understood that "This is Mṅra the Evil One," she replied to him in verses: "If even a hundred-thousand rapists came across me like this, I wouldnât stir a hair. Iâd feel no terror, and Iâm not afraid of you, Mṅra, even alone like this. Here—I disappear. I slip into your belly or stand between your eyebrows, and you donât see me. I have mastery over the mind, have well-developed the bases of power.1 Iâm released from all bonds, and not afraid of you, my friend." Then Mṅra the Evil One—sad & dejected at realizing, "Uppalavaṃṃṅ the nun knows me"—vanished right there. Note 1. See SN 51:20 - --> - - - -