{"id":"cp12","title":"The Dragon Bhūridatta’s Conduct","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"cp12","title":"The Dragon Bhūridatta’s Conduct","units":[{"id":"cp12:0","sourceIds":["cp12:0.1","cp12:0.2","cp12:0.3","cp12:0.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Cariyāpiṭaka\nHatthināgavagga\nSīlapāramī 2\nBhūridattacariya","en":"The Conduct Leading to Buddhahood\nThe Chapter on an Elephant\nThe Perfection of Ethics (2nd)\nThe Dragon Bhūridatta’s Conduct"}},{"id":"cp12:1","sourceIds":["cp12:1.1","cp12:1.2","cp12:1.3","cp12:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Punāparaṁ yadā homi,\nbhūridatto mahiddhiko;\nVirūpakkhena mahāraññā,\ndevalokamagañchahaṁ.","en":"“Then again when I was\nBhūridatta, a dragon of great psychic power,\ntogether with Virūpakkha the Great King\nI went to a heavenly realm."}},{"id":"cp12:2","sourceIds":["cp12:2.1","cp12:2.2","cp12:2.3","cp12:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tattha passitvāhaṁ deve,\nekantaṁ sukhasamappite;\nTaṁ saggagamanatthāya,\nsīlabbataṁ samādiyiṁ.","en":"There I saw gods\nwholly given over to pleasure.\nFor the sake of going to that heaven,\nI undertook the observance of ethics."}},{"id":"cp12:3","sourceIds":["cp12:3.1","cp12:3.2","cp12:3.3","cp12:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sarīrakiccaṁ katvāna,\nbhutvā yāpanamattakaṁ;\nCaturo aṅge adhiṭṭhāya,\nsemi vammikamuddhani.","en":"After tending to my physical needs,\nand eating enough to get by,\nI resolved on the four factors,\nand lay down atop a termite mound, thinking:"}},{"id":"cp12:4","sourceIds":["cp12:4.1","cp12:4.2","cp12:4.3","cp12:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"‘Chaviyā cammena maṁsena,\nNahāruaṭṭhikehi vā;\nYassa etena karaṇīyaṁ,\nDinnaṁyeva harātu so’.","en":"‘My outer skin and inner, flesh,\nsinews and bones:\nwhoever has use for these,\nthey are already given, please take them.’"}},{"id":"cp12:5","sourceIds":["cp12:5.1","cp12:5.2","cp12:5.3","cp12:5.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁsito akataññunā,\nālampāyano mamaggahi;\nPeḷāya pakkhipitvāna,\nkīḷeti maṁ tahiṁ tahiṁ.","en":"While lying there the ingrate\nĀlampāyana grabbed me.\nHe threw me in a basket\nand made me perform in places all over."}},{"id":"cp12:6","sourceIds":["cp12:6.1","cp12:6.2","cp12:6.3","cp12:6.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Peḷāya pakkhipantepi,\nsammaddantepi pāṇinā;\nĀlampāyane na kuppāmi,\nsīlakhaṇḍabhayā mama.","en":"Though thrown in a basket\nand crushed by his hands,\nI did not get upset with Ālampāyana,\nfor fear of breaking my ethics."}},{"id":"cp12:7","sourceIds":["cp12:7.1","cp12:7.2","cp12:7.3","cp12:7.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sakajīvitapariccāgo,\ntiṇato lahuko mama;\nSīlavītikkamo mayhaṁ,\npathavīuppatanaṁ viya.","en":"To give up my own life\nwas as light as a blade of grass.\nTo transgress my ethical principles\nwas like overturning the earth."}},{"id":"cp12:8","sourceIds":["cp12:8.1","cp12:8.2","cp12:8.3","cp12:8.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Nirantaraṁ jātisataṁ,\ncajeyyaṁ mama jīvitaṁ;\nNeva sīlaṁ pabhindeyyaṁ,\ncatuddīpāna hetupi.","en":"In a hundred successive lives\nI would give up my own life.\nI would not even violate my ethics\nfor the sake of the four continents."}},{"id":"cp12:9","sourceIds":["cp12:9.1","cp12:9.2","cp12:9.3","cp12:9.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Api cāhaṁ sīlarakkhāya,\nSīlapāramipūriyā;\nNa karomi citte aññathattaṁ,\nPakkhipantampi peḷake”ti.","en":"For the sake of protecting ethics,\nand fulfilling my perfection of ethics,\nI did not let my mind change,\neven when thrown in a basket.”"}},{"id":"cp12:10","sourceIds":["cp12:10.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Bhūridattacariyaṁ dutiyaṁ."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/cp12/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."}