{"id":"sn2.9","title":"The Moon","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn2.9","title":"The Moon","units":[{"id":"sn2.9:0","sourceIds":["sn2.9:0.1","sn2.9:0.2","sn2.9:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 2.9\n1. Paṭhamavagga\nCandimasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 2.9\nChapter One\nThe Moon"}},{"id":"sn2.9:1","sourceIds":["sn2.9:1.1","sn2.9:1.2","sn2.9:1.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthinidānaṁ.\nTena kho pana samayena candimā devaputto rāhunā asurindena gahito hoti.\nAtha kho candimā devaputto bhagavantaṁ anussaramāno tāyaṁ velāyaṁ imaṁ gāthaṁ abhāsi:","en":"At Sāvatthī.\nNow at that time the Moon God had been seized by Rāhu, lord of titans.\nThen the Moon God, recollecting the Buddha, at that time spoke this verse:"}},{"id":"sn2.9:2","sourceIds":["sn2.9:2.1","sn2.9:2.2","sn2.9:2.3","sn2.9:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Namo te buddha vīratthu,\nvippamuttosi sabbadhi;\nSambādhapaṭipannosmi,\ntassa me saraṇaṁ bhavā”ti.","en":"“Homage to you, Buddha, hero!\nYou’re free in every way.\nI’ve wandered into confinement:\nbe my refuge!”"}},{"id":"sn2.9:3","sourceIds":["sn2.9:3.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha kho bhagavā candimaṁ devaputtaṁ ārabbha rāhuṁ asurindaṁ gāthāya ajjhabhāsi:","en":"Then the Buddha addressed Rāhu in verse concerning the Moon God:"}},{"id":"sn2.9:4","sourceIds":["sn2.9:4.1","sn2.9:4.2","sn2.9:4.3","sn2.9:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Tathāgataṁ arahantaṁ,\ncandimā saraṇaṁ gato;\nRāhu candaṁ pamuñcassu,\nbuddhā lokānukampakā”ti.","en":"“The Moon God has gone for refuge\nto the Realized One, the perfected one.\nThe Buddhas have compassion for the world—\nso Rāhu, release the Moon!”"}},{"id":"sn2.9:5","sourceIds":["sn2.9:5.1","sn2.9:5.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha kho rāhu asurindo candimaṁ devaputtaṁ muñcitvā taramānarūpo yena vepacitti asurindo tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā saṁviggo lomahaṭṭhajāto ekamantaṁ aṭṭhāsi.\nEkamantaṁ ṭhitaṁ kho rāhuṁ asurindaṁ vepacitti asurindo gāthāya ajjhabhāsi:","en":"Then Rāhu, having released the Moon, rushed to see Vepacitti, lord of titans and stood to one side, shocked and awestruck.\nVepacitti addressed him in verse:"}},{"id":"sn2.9:6","sourceIds":["sn2.9:6.1","sn2.9:6.2","sn2.9:6.3","sn2.9:6.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Kiṁ nu santaramānova,\nrāhu candaṁ pamuñcasi;\nSaṁviggarūpo āgamma,\nkiṁ nu bhītova tiṭṭhasī”ti.","en":"“Why the rush?\nRāhu, you released the Moon\nand came here looking like you’re in shock:\nwhy do you stand there so scared?”"}},{"id":"sn2.9:7","sourceIds":["sn2.9:7.1","sn2.9:7.2","sn2.9:7.3","sn2.9:7.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Sattadhā me phale muddhā,\njīvanto na sukhaṁ labhe;\nBuddhagāthābhigītomhi,\nno ce muñceyya candiman”ti.","en":"“My head would have exploded in seven pieces,\nI would have found no happiness in life,\nif, when enchanted by the Buddha’s verse,\nI had not released the Moon.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn2.9/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."}