{"id":"cp13","title":"The Dragon Campeyyaka’s Conduct","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"cp13","title":"The Dragon Campeyyaka’s Conduct","units":[{"id":"cp13:0","sourceIds":["cp13:0.1","cp13:0.2","cp13:0.3","cp13:0.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Cariyāpiṭaka\nHatthināgavagga\nSīlapāramī 3\nCampeyyanāgacariya","en":"The Conduct Leading to Buddhahood\nThe Chapter on an Elephant\nThe Perfection of Ethics (3rd)\nThe Dragon Campeyyaka’s Conduct"}},{"id":"cp13:1","sourceIds":["cp13:1.1","cp13:1.2","cp13:1.3","cp13:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Punāparaṁ yadā homi,\ncampeyyako mahiddhiko;\nTadāpi dhammiko āsiṁ,\nsīlabbatasamappito.","en":"“Then again when I was\nCampeyyaka, a dragon of great psychic power,\nI was just,\nfurnished with precepts and vows."}},{"id":"cp13:2","sourceIds":["cp13:2.1","cp13:2.2","cp13:2.3","cp13:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tadāpi maṁ dhammacāriṁ,\nupavutthaṁ uposathaṁ;\nAhituṇḍiko gahetvāna,\nrājadvāramhi kīḷati.","en":"Then the snake-charmer who caught me\nlived righteously,\nobserving the Sabbath,\nand he made me perform at the royal gate."}},{"id":"cp13:3","sourceIds":["cp13:3.1","cp13:3.2","cp13:3.3","cp13:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yaṁ yaṁ so vaṇṇaṁ cintayi,\nnīlaṁva pītalohitaṁ;\nTassa cittānuvattanto,\nhomi cintitasannibho.","en":"Whatever color he thought of—\nblue, yellow, or red—\nI conformed to his wish,\ntaking the appearance of his thought."}},{"id":"cp13:4","sourceIds":["cp13:4.1","cp13:4.2","cp13:4.3","cp13:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Thalaṁ kareyyamudakaṁ,\nudakampi thalaṁ kare;\nYadihaṁ tassa pakuppeyyaṁ,\nkhaṇena chārikaṁ kare.","en":"I could turn dry land to water,\nand water to dry land.\nIf I were upset with him\nI could reduce him to ash in an instant."}},{"id":"cp13:5","sourceIds":["cp13:5.1","cp13:5.2","cp13:5.3","cp13:5.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yadi cittavasī hessaṁ,\nparihāyissāmi sīlato;\nSīlena parihīnassa,\nuttamattho na sijjhati.","en":"If I was under the sway of my thoughts,\nI would have fallen from my ethics.\nBut one who has fallen from their ethics\ndoes not succeed at the highest goal."}},{"id":"cp13:6","sourceIds":["cp13:6.1","cp13:6.2","cp13:6.3","cp13:6.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Kāmaṁ bhijjatuyaṁ kāyo,\nidheva vikirīyatu;\nNeva sīlaṁ pabhindeyyaṁ,\nvikirante bhusaṁ viyā”ti.","en":"Gladly, let this body be broken!\nLet it be scattered in this very place!\nNot even for that would I break my ethics,\nif it were being scattered like hay.”"}},{"id":"cp13:7","sourceIds":["cp13:7.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Campeyyanāgacariyaṁ tatiyaṁ."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/cp13/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."}