{"id":"cp31","title":"Dark Light’s Conduct","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"cp31","title":"Dark Light’s Conduct","units":[{"id":"cp31:0","sourceIds":["cp31:0.1","cp31:0.2","cp31:0.3","cp31:0.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Cariyāpiṭaka\nYudhañjayavagga\nSaccapāramī 5\nKaṇhadīpāyanacariya","en":"The Conduct Leading to Buddhahood\nThe Chapter With Yudhañjaya\nThe Perfection of Truth (5th)\nDark Light’s Conduct"}},{"id":"cp31:1","sourceIds":["cp31:1.1","cp31:1.2","cp31:1.3","cp31:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Punāparaṁ yadā homi,\nkaṇhadīpāyano isi;\nParopaññāsavassāni,\nanabhiratocariṁ ahaṁ.","en":"“Then again when I was\nthe seer Dark Light,\nfor more than fifty years\nI lived dissatisfied."}},{"id":"cp31:2","sourceIds":["cp31:2.1","cp31:2.2","cp31:2.3","cp31:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Na koci etaṁ jānāti,\nAnabhiratimanaṁ mama;\nAhañhi kassaci nācikkhiṁ,\nArati me carati mānase.","en":"No one knew of this\ndissatisfaction of mine,\nfor I mentioned it to no one,\nit only went on in my mind."}},{"id":"cp31:3","sourceIds":["cp31:3.1","cp31:3.2","cp31:3.3","cp31:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sabrahmacārī maṇḍabyo,\nsahāyo me mahāisi;\nPubbakammasamāyutto,\nsūlamāropanaṁ labhi.","en":"Maṇḍabya, a spiritual companion\nand friend of mine was a great seer.\nBound to a deed in a past life,\nhe got impaled on a stake."}},{"id":"cp31:4","sourceIds":["cp31:4.1","cp31:4.2","cp31:4.3","cp31:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tamahaṁ upaṭṭhahitvāna,\nārogyamanupāpayiṁ;\nĀpucchitvāna āgañchiṁ,\nyaṁ mayhaṁ sakamassamaṁ.","en":"I nursed him\nand brought him back to health.\nAsking leave, I returned\nto my own hermitage."}},{"id":"cp31:5","sourceIds":["cp31:5.1","cp31:5.2","cp31:5.3","cp31:5.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sahāyo brāhmaṇo mayhaṁ,\nbhariyaṁ ādāya puttakaṁ;\nTayo janā samāgantvā,\nāgañchuṁ pāhunāgataṁ.","en":"A brahmin friend of mine,\nbringing wife and child,\ncame to me, all three of them,\nas my guests."}},{"id":"cp31:6","sourceIds":["cp31:6.1","cp31:6.2","cp31:6.3","cp31:6.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sammodamāno tehi saha,\nnisinno sakamassame;\nDārako vaṭṭamanukkhipaṁ,\nāsīvisamakopayi.","en":"As I exchanged greetings with them,\nseated in my own hermitage,\nthe boy threw a ball\nand angered a viper."}},{"id":"cp31:7","sourceIds":["cp31:7.1","cp31:7.2","cp31:7.3","cp31:7.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tato so vaṭṭagataṁ maggaṁ,\nanvesanto kumārako;\nĀsīvisassa hatthena,\nuttamaṅgaṁ parāmasi.","en":"Then the boy, looking which way\nthe ball had gone,\ntouched the viper’s head\nwith his hand."}},{"id":"cp31:8","sourceIds":["cp31:8.1","cp31:8.2","cp31:8.3","cp31:8.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tassa āmasane kuddho,\nsappo visabalassito;\nKupito paramakopena,\naḍaṁsi dārakaṁ khaṇe.","en":"Angered at his touch,\nthe cobra, relying on its potent poison,\ncompletely enraged,\nbit the boy right away."}},{"id":"cp31:9","sourceIds":["cp31:9.1","cp31:9.2","cp31:9.3","cp31:9.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sahadaṭṭho āsīvisena,\ndārako papati bhūmiyaṁ;\nTenāhaṁ dukkhito āsiṁ,\nmama vāhasi taṁ dukkhaṁ.","en":"When bitten by the viper,\nthe boy fainted on the ground.\nIt made me distraught,\nthe pain became as if mine."}},{"id":"cp31:10","sourceIds":["cp31:10.1","cp31:10.2","cp31:10.3","cp31:10.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tyāhaṁ assāsayitvāna,\ndukkhite sokasallite;\nPaṭhamaṁ akāsiṁ kiriyaṁ,\naggaṁ saccaṁ varuttamaṁ.","en":"Comforting the parents,\nin their suffering and sorrow,\nI made the first act,\nthe original, supreme declaration of truth:"}},{"id":"cp31:11","sourceIds":["cp31:11.1","cp31:11.2","cp31:11.3","cp31:11.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"‘Sattāhamevāhaṁ pasannacitto,\nPuññatthiko acariṁ brahmacariyaṁ;\nAthāparaṁ yaṁ caritaṁ mamedaṁ,\nVassāni paññāsasamādhikāni.","en":"‘For just seven days with a mind of faith\nI led the spiritual life seeking merit.\nMy life since then,\nfor fifty years or more,"}},{"id":"cp31:12","sourceIds":["cp31:12.1","cp31:12.2","cp31:12.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Akāmako vāhi ahaṁ carāmi,\nEtena saccena suvatthi hotu;\nHataṁ visaṁ jīvatu yaññadatto’.","en":"I have lived unwillingly.\nBy this truth, may he be well!\nMay the poison die! May Yaññadatta live!’"}},{"id":"cp31:13","sourceIds":["cp31:13.1","cp31:13.2","cp31:13.3","cp31:13.4","cp31:13.5","cp31:13.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saha sacce kate mayhaṁ,\nvisavegena vedhito;\nAbujjhitvāna vuṭṭhāsi,\narogo cāsi māṇavo;\nSaccena me samo natthi,\nesā me saccapāramī”ti.","en":"As I declared this truth,\nthe boy trembling with poison,\nawoke and got up,\nthe brahmin youth was well.\nThere is no one to equal my truthfulness:\nthis is my perfection of truth.”"}},{"id":"cp31:14","sourceIds":["cp31:14.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Kaṇhadīpāyanacariyaṁ ekādasamaṁ."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/cp31/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."}