{"id":"sn10.9","title":"With the Nun Sukkā (1st)","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn10.9","title":"With the Nun Sukkā (1st)","units":[{"id":"sn10.9:0","sourceIds":["sn10.9:0.1","sn10.9:0.2","sn10.9:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 10.9\n1. Indakavagga\nPaṭhamasukkāsutta","en":"Linked Discourses 10.9\n1. With Indaka\nWith the Nun Sukkā (1st)"}},{"id":"sn10.9:1","sourceIds":["sn10.9:1.1","sn10.9:1.2","sn10.9:1.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ekaṁ samayaṁ bhagavā rājagahe viharati veḷuvane kalandakanivāpe.\nTena kho pana samayena sukkā bhikkhunī mahatiyā parisāya parivutā dhammaṁ deseti.\nAtha kho sukkāya bhikkhuniyā abhippasanno yakkho rājagahe rathikāya rathikaṁ siṅghāṭakena siṅghāṭakaṁ upasaṅkamitvā tāyaṁ velāyaṁ imā gāthāyo abhāsi:","en":"At one time the Buddha was staying near Rājagaha in the Bamboo Grove, the squirrels’ feeding ground.\nNow, at that time the nun Sukkā was teaching Dhamma, surrounded by a large assembly.\nThen a native spirit was so devoted to Sukkā that he went from street to street and from square to square, and on that occasion recited these verses:"}},{"id":"sn10.9:2","sourceIds":["sn10.9:2.1","sn10.9:2.2","sn10.9:2.3","sn10.9:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Kiṁ me katā rājagahe manussā,\nMadhupītāva seyare;\nYe sukkaṁ na payirupāsanti,\nDesentiṁ amataṁ padaṁ.","en":"“What’s up with these people in Rājagaha?\nThey sleep like they’ve been drinking mead!\nThey don’t attend on Sukkā\nas she’s teaching the state free of death."}},{"id":"sn10.9:3","sourceIds":["sn10.9:3.1","sn10.9:3.2","sn10.9:3.3","sn10.9:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tañca pana appaṭivānīyaṁ,\nAsecanakamojavaṁ;\nPivanti maññe sappaññā,\nValāhakamiva panthagū”ti.","en":"But the wise—\nit’s as if they drink it up,\nso irresistible, delectable, and nutritious,\nlike travelers enjoying a cool cloud.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn10.9/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."}