{"id":"sn1.13","title":"There’s Nothing Like a Child","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn1.13","title":"There’s Nothing Like a Child","units":[{"id":"sn1.13:0","sourceIds":["sn1.13:0.1","sn1.13:0.2","sn1.13:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 1.13\n2. Nandanavagga\nNatthiputtasamasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 1.13\n2. The Garden of Delight\nThere’s Nothing Like a Child"}},{"id":"sn1.13:1","sourceIds":["sn1.13:1.1","sn1.13:1.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthinidānaṁ.\nEkamantaṁ ṭhitā kho sā devatā bhagavato santike imaṁ gāthaṁ abhāsi:","en":"At Sāvatthī.\nStanding to one side, that deity spoke this verse in the Buddha’s presence:"}},{"id":"sn1.13:2","sourceIds":["sn1.13:2.1","sn1.13:2.2","sn1.13:2.3","sn1.13:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Natthi puttasamaṁ pemaṁ,\nnatthi gosamitaṁ dhanaṁ;\nNatthi sūriyasamā ābhā,\nsamuddaparamā sarā”ti.","en":"“There’s no fondness like that for a child,\nno wealth equal to cattle,\nno light like that of the sun,\nand of streams the ocean is paramount.”"}},{"id":"sn1.13:3","sourceIds":["sn1.13:3.1","sn1.13:3.2","sn1.13:3.3","sn1.13:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Natthi attasamaṁ pemaṁ,\nnatthi dhaññasamaṁ dhanaṁ;\nNatthi paññāsamā ābhā,\nvuṭṭhi ve paramā sarā”ti.","en":"“There’s no fondness like that for oneself,\nno wealth equal to grain,\nno light like that of wisdom,\nand of streams the rain is paramount.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn1.13/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."}