{"id":"an8.44","title":"With Vāseṭṭha on the Sabbath","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an8.44","title":"With Vāseṭṭha on the Sabbath","units":[{"id":"an8.44:0","sourceIds":["an8.44:0.1","an8.44:0.2","an8.44:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 8.44\n5. Uposathavagga\nVāseṭṭhasutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 8.44\n5. Sabbath\nWith Vāseṭṭha on the Sabbath"}},{"id":"an8.44:1","sourceIds":["an8.44:1.1","an8.44:1.2","an8.44:1.3","an8.44:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ekaṁ samayaṁ bhagavā vesāliyaṁ viharati mahāvane kūṭāgārasālāyaṁ.\nAtha kho vāseṭṭho upāsako yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā bhagavantaṁ abhivādetvā ekamantaṁ nisīdi. Ekamantaṁ nisinnaṁ kho vāseṭṭhaṁ upāsakaṁ bhagavā etadavoca:\n“aṭṭhaṅgasamannāgato, vāseṭṭha, uposatho upavuttho mahapphalo hoti …pe…\naninditā saggamupenti ṭhānan”ti.","en":"At one time the Buddha was staying near Vesālī, at the Great Wood, in the hall with the peaked roof.\nThen the layman Vāseṭṭha went up to the Buddha, bowed, and sat down to one side. The Buddha said to him:\n“Vāseṭṭha, the observance of the sabbath with its eight factors is very fruitful and beneficial and brilliant and bountiful …\nblameless, they go to a heavenly place.”"}},{"id":"an8.44:2","sourceIds":["an8.44:2.1","an8.44:2.2","an8.44:2.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Evaṁ vutte, vāseṭṭho upāsako bhagavantaṁ etadavoca:\n“piyā me, bhante, ñātisālohitā aṭṭhaṅgasamannāgataṁ uposathaṁ upavaseyyuṁ, piyānampi me assa ñātisālohitānaṁ dīgharattaṁ hitāya sukhāya.\nSabbe cepi, bhante, khattiyā aṭṭhaṅgasamannāgataṁ uposathaṁ upavaseyyuṁ, sabbesampissa khattiyānaṁ dīgharattaṁ hitāya sukhāya. Sabbe cepi, bhante, brāhmaṇā …pe… vessā … suddā aṭṭhaṅgasamannāgataṁ uposathaṁ upavaseyyuṁ, sabbesampissa suddānaṁ dīgharattaṁ hitāya sukhāyā”ti.","en":"When he said this, Vāseṭṭha said to the Buddha:\n“If my loved ones—relatives and kin—were to observe this sabbath with its eight factors, it would be for their lasting welfare and happiness.\nIf all the aristocrats, brahmins, peasants, and menials were to observe this sabbath with its eight factors, it would be for their lasting welfare and happiness.”"}},{"id":"an8.44:3","sourceIds":["an8.44:3.1","an8.44:3.2","an8.44:3.3","an8.44:3.4","an8.44:3.5","an8.44:3.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Evametaṁ, vāseṭṭha, evametaṁ, vāseṭṭha.\nSabbe cepi, vāseṭṭha, khattiyā aṭṭhaṅgasamannāgataṁ uposathaṁ upavaseyyuṁ, sabbesampissa khattiyānaṁ dīgharattaṁ hitāya sukhāya. Sabbe cepi, vāseṭṭha, brāhmaṇā …pe… vessā … suddā aṭṭhaṅgasamannāgataṁ uposathaṁ upavaseyyuṁ, sabbesampissa suddānaṁ dīgharattaṁ hitāya sukhāya.\nSadevako cepi, vāseṭṭha, loko samārako sabrahmako sassamaṇabrāhmaṇī pajā sadevamanussā aṭṭhaṅgasamannāgataṁ uposathaṁ upavaseyyuṁ, sadevakassapissa lokassa samārakassa sabrahmakassa sassamaṇabrāhmaṇiyā pajāya sadevamanussāya dīgharattaṁ hitāya sukhāya.\nIme cepi, vāseṭṭha, mahāsālā aṭṭhaṅgasamannāgataṁ uposathaṁ upavaseyyuṁ, imesampissa mahāsālānaṁ dīgharattaṁ hitāya sukhāya (…).\nKo pana vādo manussabhūtassā”ti.\nCatutthaṁ.","en":"“That’s so true, Vāseṭṭha! That’s so true, Vāseṭṭha!\nIf all the aristocrats, brahmins, peasants, and menials were to observe this sabbath with its eight factors, it would be for their lasting welfare and happiness.\nIf the whole world—with its gods, Māras, and divinities, this population with its ascetics and brahmins, gods and humans—were to observe this sabbath with its eight factors, it would be for their lasting welfare and happiness.\nIf these great sal trees were to observe this sabbath with its eight factors, it would be for their lasting welfare and happiness—if they were sentient.\nHow much more then a human being!”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an8.44/en/sujato","licence":"CC0 1.0","licenceUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","editionNote":"Full supplied source file; inherited abbreviations are preserved. Not a reconstructed expansion of every repetition. No Malay or Mandarin translation is implied."}