{"id":"ja18","title":"The Feast for the Dead: a past life story","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"ja18","title":"The Feast for the Dead: a past life story","units":[{"id":"ja18:0","sourceIds":["ja18:0.1","ja18:0.2","ja18:0.3","ja18:0.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Jātaka\nEkakanipāta\nSīlavagga\n8. Matakabhattajātaka","en":"Stories of Past Lives 18\nThe Book of the Ones\nEthics\nThe Feast for the Dead: a past life story"}},{"id":"ja18:1","sourceIds":["ja18:1.1","ja18:1.2","ja18:1.3","ja18:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Evañce sattā jāneyyuṁ,\ndukkhāyaṁ jātisambhavo;\nNa pāṇo pāṇinaṁ haññe,\npāṇaghātī hi socatī”ti.","en":"If beings only knew\nhow this suffering is created by birth,\nno creature would kill another,\nfor the slayer of creatures grieves."}},{"id":"ja18:2","sourceIds":["ja18:2.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Matakabhattajātakaṁ aṭṭhamaṁ."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/ja18/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."}