{"id":"sn1.4","title":"Time Flies","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn1.4","title":"Time Flies","units":[{"id":"sn1.4:0","sourceIds":["sn1.4:0.1","sn1.4:0.2","sn1.4:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 1.4\n1. Naḷavagga\nAccentisutta","en":"Linked Discourses 1.4\n1. A Reed\nTime Flies"}},{"id":"sn1.4:1","sourceIds":["sn1.4:1.1","sn1.4:1.2"],"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":"sn1.4:2","sourceIds":["sn1.4:2.1","sn1.4:2.2","sn1.4:2.3","sn1.4:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Accenti kālā tarayanti rattiyo,\nVayoguṇā anupubbaṁ jahanti;\nEtaṁ bhayaṁ maraṇe pekkhamāno,\nPuññāni kayirātha sukhāvahānī”ti.","en":"“Time flies, nights pass by,\nthe stages of life leave us one by one.\nSeeing this peril in death,\ndo good deeds that bring you joy.”"}},{"id":"sn1.4:3","sourceIds":["sn1.4:3.1","sn1.4:3.2","sn1.4:3.3","sn1.4:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Accenti kālā tarayanti rattiyo,\nVayoguṇā anupubbaṁ jahanti;\nEtaṁ bhayaṁ maraṇe pekkhamāno,\nLokāmisaṁ pajahe santipekkho”ti.","en":"“Time flies, nights pass by,\nthe stages of life leave us one by one.\nSeeing this peril in death,\na seeker of peace would drop the world’s bait.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn1.4/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."}