{"id":"sn10.1","title":"With Indaka","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn10.1","title":"With Indaka","units":[{"id":"sn10.1:0","sourceIds":["sn10.1:0.1","sn10.1:0.2","sn10.1:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 10.1\n1. Indakavagga\nIndakasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 10.1\n1. With Indaka\nWith Indaka"}},{"id":"sn10.1:1","sourceIds":["sn10.1:1.1","sn10.1:1.2","sn10.1:1.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Evaṁ me sutaṁ—\nekaṁ samayaṁ bhagavā rājagahe viharati indakūṭe pabbate, indakassa yakkhassa bhavane.\nAtha kho indako yakkho yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā bhagavantaṁ gāthāya ajjhabhāsi:","en":"So I have heard.\nAt one time the Buddha was staying near Rājagaha on Mount Indra’s Peak, the haunt of the native spirit Indaka.\nThen the native spirit Indaka went up to the Buddha, and addressed him in verse:"}},{"id":"sn10.1:2","sourceIds":["sn10.1:2.1","sn10.1:2.2","sn10.1:2.3","sn10.1:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Rūpaṁ na jīvanti vadanti buddhā,\nKathaṁ nvayaṁ vindatimaṁ sarīraṁ;\nKutassa aṭṭhīyakapiṇḍameti,\nKathaṁ nvayaṁ sajjati gabbharasmin”ti.","en":"“The Buddhas say that form is not the soul.\nThen how does this one obtain this body?\nFrom where do his bones and organs come?\nHow does this one coalesce in the womb?”"}},{"id":"sn10.1:3","sourceIds":["sn10.1:3.1","sn10.1:3.2","sn10.1:3.3","sn10.1:3.4","sn10.1:3.5","sn10.1:3.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Paṭhamaṁ kalalaṁ hoti,\nkalalā hoti abbudaṁ;\nAbbudā jāyate pesi,\npesi nibbattatī ghano;\nGhanā pasākhā jāyanti,\nkesā lomā nakhāpi ca.","en":"“First there’s the zygote;\nthen there’s the blastocyst;\nfrom there arises the gastrula;\nwhich produces the embryonic mass.\nFrom that the limb buds appear,\nthe head hair, body hair, and nails."}},{"id":"sn10.1:4","sourceIds":["sn10.1:4.1","sn10.1:4.2","sn10.1:4.3","sn10.1:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yañcassa bhuñjatī mātā,\nannaṁ pānañca bhojanaṁ;\nTena so tattha yāpeti,\nmātukucchigato naro”ti.","en":"And whatever the mother eats—\nthe food and drink that she consumes—\nnourishes them there,\nthe person in the mother’s womb.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn10.1/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."}