{"id":"sn19.16","title":"A Headless Trunk","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn19.16","title":"A Headless Trunk","units":[{"id":"sn19.16:0","sourceIds":["sn19.16:0.1","sn19.16:0.2","sn19.16:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 19.16\n2. Dutiyavagga\nAsīsakasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 19.16\nChapter Two\nA Headless Trunk"}},{"id":"sn19.16:1","sourceIds":["sn19.16:1.1","sn19.16:1.2","sn19.16:1.3","sn19.16:1.4","sn19.16:1.5","sn19.16:1.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Idhāhaṁ, āvuso, gijjhakūṭā pabbatā orohanto addasaṁ asīsakaṁ kabandhaṁ vehāsaṁ gacchantaṁ.\nTassa ure akkhīni ceva honti mukhañca.\nTamenaṁ gijjhāpi kākāpi kulalāpi anupatitvā anupatitvā vitacchenti virājenti.\nSo sudaṁ aṭṭassaraṁ karoti …pe…\neso, bhikkhave, satto imasmiṁyeva rājagahe hāriko nāma coraghātako ahosi …pe….\nChaṭṭhaṁ.","en":"“Just now, reverend, as I was descending from Vulture’s Peak Mountain I saw a headless trunk flying through the air.\nIts eyes and mouth were on its chest.\nVultures, crows, and hawks kept chasing it, pecking and clawing\nas it screamed in pain. …” …\n“That being used to be an executioner named Taker right here in Rājagaha. …”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn19.16/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."}