Aratī untranslated

Aratī. One of the three daughters of Māra, the others being Taṇhā and Ragā. (In the Buddhacarita (xiii.), their names are Ratī, Prītī and Tṛṣṇā; in the Lalitavistara (353), Ratī, Aratī and Tṛṣṇā).

Seeing their father disconsolate after his repeated attempts to foil Gotama’s quest for Awakening, they offered to tempt the Buddha with their wiles. This was in the fifth week after the Awakening. With Māra’s approval, they came to the Buddha in various forms and in various guises, as he sat at the foot of the Ajapāla banyan tree, and danced and sang before him. In the end the Buddha told them that he was beyond temptation by the pleasures of the senses and they went back to their father (SN.i.124-7; Ja.i.78-80, 469; Dhp­a.i.201f., iii.196,199; Snp.v.835).

In the Saṁyutta account, they are said to have asked the Buddha questions regarding himself and his teachings. Aratī’s question was how a man who had already crossed the five floods could cross the sixth. For explanation see KS.i.158, n.3.