Norman
25. My wages of prostitution were as large as the revenue of the country of Kasi; the townspeople fixed that price and made me priceless in price.
26. Then I became disgusted with my beauty, and being disgusted I was disinterested in it. May I not run again through the journeying-on from rebirth to rebirth again and again. I have realized the three knowledges. I have done the Buddha’s teaching.
Weingast
A night with me
used to cost more
than all the land
in Kasi.
But through all
the pricing and haggling,
I somehow lost interest
in being talked about
like a field of wheat.
Unlike any crop,
I have ripened
here in the shade
of these gentle trees.
A field for no farmer.
A land that has paid for itself.