{"id":"sn1.26","title":"Lamps","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn1.26","title":"Lamps","units":[{"id":"sn1.26:0","sourceIds":["sn1.26:0.1","sn1.26:0.2","sn1.26:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 1.26\n3. Sattivagga\nPajjotasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 1.26\n3. A Sword\nLamps"}},{"id":"sn1.26:1","sourceIds":["sn1.26:1.1","sn1.26:1.2","sn1.26:1.3","sn1.26:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Kati lokasmiṁ pajjotā,\nTehi loko pakāsati;\nBhagavantaṁ puṭṭhumāgamma,\nKathaṁ jānemu taṁ mayan”ti.","en":"“How many lamps are there\nthat light up the world?\nWe’ve come to ask the worthy sir:\nhow are we to understand this?”"}},{"id":"sn1.26:2","sourceIds":["sn1.26:2.1","sn1.26:2.2","sn1.26:2.3","sn1.26:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Cattāro loke pajjotā,\npañcamettha na vijjati;\nDivā tapati ādicco,\nrattimābhāti candimā.","en":"“There are four lamps in the world,\na fifth is not found.\nThe sun blazes by day,\nthe moon radiates at night,"}},{"id":"sn1.26:3","sourceIds":["sn1.26:3.1","sn1.26:3.2","sn1.26:3.3","sn1.26:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha aggi divārattiṁ,\ntattha tattha pakāsati;\nSambuddho tapataṁ seṭṭho,\nesā ābhā anuttarā”ti.","en":"while a fire illuminates both\nby day and by night.\nBut a Buddha is the best of blazes:\nthis is the supreme radiance.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn1.26/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."}