{"id":"cp18","title":"The Deity Dhamma’s Conduct","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"cp18","title":"The Deity Dhamma’s Conduct","units":[{"id":"cp18:0","sourceIds":["cp18:0.1","cp18:0.2","cp18:0.3","cp18:0.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Cariyāpiṭaka\nHatthināgavagga\nSīlapāramī 8\nDhammadevaputtacariya","en":"The Conduct Leading to Buddhahood\nThe Chapter on an Elephant\nThe Perfection of Ethics (8th)\nThe Deity Dhamma’s Conduct"}},{"id":"cp18:1","sourceIds":["cp18:1.1","cp18:1.2","cp18:1.3","cp18:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Punāparaṁ yadā homi,\nmahāpakkho mahiddhiko;\nDhammo nāma mahāyakkho,\nsabbalokānukampako.","en":"“Then again when I was\nof great retinue and psychic power,\na great spirit named Dhamma,\nI had sympathy for the whole world."}},{"id":"cp18:2","sourceIds":["cp18:2.1","cp18:2.2","cp18:2.3","cp18:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Dasakusalakammapathe,\nsamādapento mahājanaṁ;\nCarāmi gāmanigamaṁ,\nsamitto saparijjano.","en":"Establishing the populace\nin the ten ways of skillful deeds,\nI wandered from village to town,\nwith friends and associates."}},{"id":"cp18:3","sourceIds":["cp18:3.1","cp18:3.2","cp18:3.3","cp18:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Pāpo kadariyo yakkho,\ndīpento dasa pāpake;\nSopettha mahiyā carati,\nsamitto saparijjano.","en":"A wicked, miserly spirit\npromoting the ten wicked ways\nwas also wandering the earth\nwith friends and associates."}},{"id":"cp18:4","sourceIds":["cp18:4.1","cp18:4.2","cp18:4.3","cp18:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Dhammavādī adhammo ca,\nubho paccanikā mayaṁ;\nDhure dhuraṁ ghaṭṭayantā,\nsamimhā paṭipathe ubho.","en":"The righteous and unrighteous,\nwe were each other’s foe.\nSlamming chariot poles,\nwe collided together."}},{"id":"cp18:5","sourceIds":["cp18:5.1","cp18:5.2","cp18:5.3","cp18:5.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Kalaho vattatī bhesmā,\nkalyāṇapāpakassa ca;\nMaggā okkamanatthāya,\nmahāyuddho upaṭṭhito.","en":"A dreadful quarrel ensued\nbetween the good and the ill,\na great war loomed\naiming to push the other off the road."}},{"id":"cp18:6","sourceIds":["cp18:6.1","cp18:6.2","cp18:6.3","cp18:6.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yadihaṁ tassa kuppeyyaṁ,\nyadi bhinde tapoguṇaṁ;\nSahaparijanaṁ tassa,\nrajabhūtaṁ kareyyahaṁ.","en":"If I had been upset with him,\nif I had broken my asceticism,\nI could have reduced him to dust,\ntogether with his companions."}},{"id":"cp18:7","sourceIds":["cp18:7.1","cp18:7.2","cp18:7.3","cp18:7.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Api cāhaṁ sīlarakkhāya,\nnibbāpetvāna mānasaṁ;\nSaha janenokkamitvā,\npathaṁ pāpassa dāsahaṁ.","en":"Nevertheless, for the sake of guarding my ethics,\nI quelled my heart.\nI left the road with my folk,\ngiving it to the wicked one."}},{"id":"cp18:8","sourceIds":["cp18:8.1","cp18:8.2","cp18:8.3","cp18:8.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saha pathato okkante,\nkatvā cittassa nibbutiṁ;\nVivaraṁ adāsi pathavī,\npāpayakkhassa tāvade”ti.","en":"As soon as I stepped down off the path,\nand I had quelled my mind,\nthe earth opened up\nfor that wicked spirit.”"}},{"id":"cp18:9","sourceIds":["cp18:9.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Dhammadevaputtacariyaṁ aṭṭhamaṁ."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/cp18/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."}