{"id":"cp20","title":"Saṅkhapāla’s Conduct","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"cp20","title":"Saṅkhapāla’s Conduct","units":[{"id":"cp20:0","sourceIds":["cp20:0.1","cp20:0.2","cp20:0.3","cp20:0.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Cariyāpiṭaka\nHatthināgavagga\nSīlapāramī 10\nSaṅkhapālacariya","en":"The Conduct Leading to Buddhahood\nThe Chapter on an Elephant\nThe Perfection of Ethics (10th)\nSaṅkhapāla’s Conduct"}},{"id":"cp20:1","sourceIds":["cp20:1.1","cp20:1.2","cp20:1.3","cp20:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Punāparaṁ yadā homi,\nsaṅkhapālo mahiddhiko;\nDāṭhāvudho ghoraviso,\ndvijivho uragādhibhū.","en":"“Then again when I was\nSaṅkhapāla, a dragon of great psychic power,\ndeadly-fanged, lethally venomous,\ntwo-tongued, lord of serpents."}},{"id":"cp20:2","sourceIds":["cp20:2.1","cp20:2.2","cp20:2.3","cp20:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Catuppathe mahāmagge,\nnānājanasamākule;\nCaturo aṅge adhiṭṭhāya,\ntattha vāsamakappayiṁ.","en":"At a crossroad on a highway\ncrowded with many people,\nI resolved on the four factors,\nand made my home there."}},{"id":"cp20:3","sourceIds":["cp20:3.1","cp20:3.2","cp20:3.3","cp20:3.4"],"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":"cp20:4","sourceIds":["cp20:4.1","cp20:4.2","cp20:4.3","cp20:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Addasaṁsu bhojaputtā,\nkharā luddā akāruṇā;\nUpagañchuṁ mamaṁ tattha,\ndaṇḍamuggarapāṇino.","en":"Seeing me, the Bhojans,\nthose violent and pitiless hunters,\ncame to me there\nwith sticks and hammers in their hands."}},{"id":"cp20:5","sourceIds":["cp20:5.1","cp20:5.2","cp20:5.3","cp20:5.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Nāsāya vinivijjhitvā,\nnaṅguṭṭhe piṭṭhikaṇṭake;\nKāje āropayitvāna,\nbhojaputtā hariṁsu maṁ.","en":"Having pierced my nose,\ntail, and spine,\nand fastened me to a pole,\nthe Bhojans carried me away."}},{"id":"cp20:6","sourceIds":["cp20:6.1","cp20:6.2","cp20:6.3","cp20:6.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sasāgarantaṁ pathaviṁ,\nsakānanaṁ sapabbataṁ;\nIcchamāno cahaṁ tattha,\nnāsāvātena jhāpaye.","en":"The earth from sea to sea,\nwith its forests and mountains—\nhad I wished, right there\nI could have burnt it up with a blast from my nose."}},{"id":"cp20:7","sourceIds":["cp20:7.1","cp20:7.2","cp20:7.3","cp20:7.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sūlehi vinivijjhante,\nKoṭṭayantepi sattibhi;\nBhojaputte na kuppāmi,\nEsā me sīlapāramī”ti.","en":"Though pierced with stakes,\nand stabbed with knives,\nI did not get upset with the Bhojans:\nthis is my perfection of ethics.”"}},{"id":"cp20:8","sourceIds":["cp20:8.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṅkhapālacariyaṁ dasamaṁ."}},{"id":"cp20:9","sourceIds":["cp20:9.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Hatthināgavaggo dutiyo."}},{"id":"cp20:10","sourceIds":["cp20:10.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tassuddānaṁ"}},{"id":"cp20:11","sourceIds":["cp20:11.1","cp20:11.2","cp20:11.3","cp20:11.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Hatthināgo bhūridatto,\ncampeyyo bodhi mahiṁso;\nRuru mātaṅgo dhammo ca,\natrajo ca jayaddiso."}},{"id":"cp20:12","sourceIds":["cp20:12.1","cp20:12.2","cp20:12.3","cp20:12.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ete nava sīlabalā,\nparikkhārā padesikā;\nJīvitaṁ parirakkhitvā,\nsīlāni anurakkhisaṁ."}},{"id":"cp20:13","sourceIds":["cp20:13.1","cp20:13.2","cp20:13.3","cp20:13.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṅkhapālassa me sato,\nsabbakālampi jīvitaṁ;\nYassa kassaci niyyattaṁ,\ntasmā sā sīlapāramīti."}},{"id":"cp20:14","sourceIds":["cp20:14.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sīlapāraminiddeso niṭṭhito."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/cp20/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."}