{"id":"sn2.4","title":"With Maghada","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn2.4","title":"With Maghada","units":[{"id":"sn2.4:0","sourceIds":["sn2.4:0.1","sn2.4:0.2","sn2.4:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 2.4\n1. Paṭhamavagga\nMāgadhasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 2.4\nChapter One\nWith Maghada"}},{"id":"sn2.4:1","sourceIds":["sn2.4:1.1","sn2.4:1.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthinidānaṁ.\nEkamantaṁ ṭhito kho māgadho devaputto bhagavantaṁ gāthāya ajjhabhāsi:","en":"At Sāvatthī.\nStanding to one side, the godling Maghada addressed the Buddha in verse:"}},{"id":"sn2.4:2","sourceIds":["sn2.4:2.1","sn2.4:2.2","sn2.4:2.3","sn2.4:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Kati lokasmiṁ pajjotā,\nyehi loko pakāsati;\nBhavantaṁ puṭṭhumāgamma,\nkathaṁ jānemu taṁ mayan”ti.","en":"“How many lamps are there\nthat light up the world?\nWe’ve come to ask the Buddha;\nhow are we to understand this?”"}},{"id":"sn2.4:3","sourceIds":["sn2.4:3.1","sn2.4:3.2","sn2.4:3.3","sn2.4:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Cattāro loke pajjotā,\npañcamettha na vijjati;\nDivā tapati ādicco,\nrattimābhāti candimā.","en":"“There are four lamps in the world,\na fifth is not found.\nThe sun blazes by day,\nthe moon radiates at night,"}},{"id":"sn2.4:4","sourceIds":["sn2.4:4.1","sn2.4:4.2","sn2.4:4.3","sn2.4:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha aggi divārattiṁ,\ntattha tattha pakāsati;\nSambuddho tapataṁ seṭṭho,\nesā ābhā anuttarā”ti.","en":"while a fire illuminates both\nby day and by night.\nBut a Buddha is the best of blazes:\nthis is the supreme radiance.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn2.4/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."}