{"id":"sn1.54","title":"Grounds","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn1.54","title":"Grounds","units":[{"id":"sn1.54:0","sourceIds":["sn1.54:0.1","sn1.54:0.2","sn1.54:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 1.54\n6. Jarāvagga\nVatthusutta","en":"Linked Discourses 1.54\n6. Old Age\nGrounds"}},{"id":"sn1.54:1","sourceIds":["sn1.54:1.1","sn1.54:1.2","sn1.54:1.3","sn1.54:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Kiṁsu vatthu manussānaṁ,\nkiṁsūdha paramo sakhā;\nKiṁsu bhūtā upajīvanti,\nye pāṇā pathavissitā”ti.","en":"“What is the site for human beings?\nWhat is the best comrade here?\nBy what do the creatures who live off the earth\nsustain their life?”"}},{"id":"sn1.54:2","sourceIds":["sn1.54:2.1","sn1.54:2.2","sn1.54:2.3","sn1.54:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Puttā vatthu manussānaṁ,\nbhariyā ca paramo sakhā;\nVuṭṭhiṁ bhūtā upajīvanti,\nye pāṇā pathavissitā”ti.","en":"“Children are the site for human beings.\nA wife is the best comrade.\nThe creatures who live off the earth\nsustain their life by rain.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn1.54/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."}