{"id":"cp29","title":"The Baby Quail’s Conduct","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"cp29","title":"The Baby Quail’s Conduct","units":[{"id":"cp29:0","sourceIds":["cp29:0.1","cp29:0.2","cp29:0.3","cp29:0.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Cariyāpiṭaka\nYudhañjayavagga\nSaccapāramī 3\nVaṭṭapotakacariya","en":"The Conduct Leading to Buddhahood\nThe Chapter With Yudhañjaya\nThe Perfection of Truth (3rd)\nThe Baby Quail’s Conduct"}},{"id":"cp29:1","sourceIds":["cp29:1.1","cp29:1.2","cp29:1.3","cp29:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Punāparaṁ yadā homi,\nmagadhe vaṭṭapotako;\nAjātapakkho taruṇo,\nmaṁsapesi kulāvake.","en":"“Then again when I was\na baby quail in Magadha,\nI was young, with wings unsprouted,\njust a scrap of meat in the nest."}},{"id":"cp29:2","sourceIds":["cp29:2.1","cp29:2.2","cp29:2.3","cp29:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Mukhatuṇḍakenāharitvā,\nmātā posayatī mamaṁ;\nTassā phassena jīvāmi,\nnatthi me kāyikaṁ balaṁ.","en":"With food she brought in her beak\nmy mother nurtured me.\nI survived through her touch,\nfor I had no physical strength."}},{"id":"cp29:3","sourceIds":["cp29:3.1","cp29:3.2","cp29:3.3","cp29:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁvacchare gimhasamaye,\ndavaḍāho padippati;\nUpagacchati amhākaṁ,\npāvako kaṇhavattanī.","en":"One year, in the hot season,\nthe forest caught fire.\nIt came toward us,\na conflagration with a blackened trail."}},{"id":"cp29:4","sourceIds":["cp29:4.1","cp29:4.2","cp29:4.3","cp29:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Dhamadhamāiti evaṁ,\nsaddāyanto mahāsikhī;\nAnupubbena jhāpento,\naggi mamamupāgami.","en":"The fire roared and rumbled\nwith great crests of flame,\ngradually burning\ncloser to me."}},{"id":"cp29:5","sourceIds":["cp29:5.1","cp29:5.2","cp29:5.3","cp29:5.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aggivegabhayātītā,\ntasitā mātāpitā mama;\nKulāvake maṁ chaḍḍetvā,\nattānaṁ parimocayuṁ.","en":"Alarmed and terrified at the fierce fire,\nmy mother and father\nabandoned me in the nest,\nsaving themselves."}},{"id":"cp29:6","sourceIds":["cp29:6.1","cp29:6.2","cp29:6.3","cp29:6.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Pāde pakkhe pajahāmi,\nnatthi me kāyikaṁ balaṁ;\nSohaṁ agatiko tattha,\nevaṁ cintesahaṁ tadā.","en":"I beat my feet and wings,\nbut I had no physical strength.\nWhen unable to leave,\nI thought this there:"}},{"id":"cp29:7","sourceIds":["cp29:7.1","cp29:7.2","cp29:7.3","cp29:7.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"‘Yesāhaṁ upadhāveyyaṁ,\nbhīto tasitavedhito;\nTe maṁ ohāya pakkantā,\nkathaṁ me ajja kātave.","en":"‘Those to whom I ought to run,\nscared and trembling with fear,\nhave escaped, leaving me behind.\nHow should I act today?"}},{"id":"cp29:8","sourceIds":["cp29:8.1","cp29:8.2","cp29:8.3","cp29:8.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atthi loke sīlaguṇo,\nsaccaṁ soceyyanuddayā;\nTena saccena kāhāmi,\nsaccakiriyamuttamaṁ.","en":"There is the quality of virtue in the world,\ntruth, purity, and mercy.\nBy this truth I will make\na supreme declaration of truth.’"}},{"id":"cp29:9","sourceIds":["cp29:9.1","cp29:9.2","cp29:9.3","cp29:9.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Āvejjetvā dhammabalaṁ,\nsaritvā pubbake jine;\nSaccabalamavassāya,\nsaccakiriyamakāsahaṁ.","en":"Inspired by the power of Dhamma,\nrecollecting the former Victors,\nrelying on the power of truth,\nI made a declaration of truth."}},{"id":"cp29:10","sourceIds":["cp29:10.1","cp29:10.2","cp29:10.3","cp29:10.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Santi pakkhā apatanā,\nsanti pādā avañcanā;\nMātāpitā ca nikkhantā,\njātaveda paṭikkama’.","en":"‘I have wings that do not fly!\nI have feet that do not walk!\nMother and father have fled!\nJātaveda the fire: go back!’"}},{"id":"cp29:11","sourceIds":["cp29:11.1","cp29:11.2","cp29:11.3","cp29:11.4","cp29:11.5","cp29:11.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sahasacce kate mayhaṁ,\nMahāpajjalito sikhī;\nVajjesi soḷasakarīsāni,\nUdakaṁ patvā yathā sikhī;\nSaccena me samo natthi,\nEsā me saccapāramī”ti.","en":"As I declared this truth\nthe great crested flames\nwithdrew sixteen leagues,\nas if they had come to water.\nThere is no one to equal my truthfulness:\nthis is my perfection of truth.”"}},{"id":"cp29:12","sourceIds":["cp29:12.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Vaṭṭapotakacariyaṁ navamaṁ."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/cp29/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."}