{"id":"sn20.12","title":"A Jackal (2nd)","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn20.12","title":"A Jackal (2nd)","units":[{"id":"sn20.12:0","sourceIds":["sn20.12:0.1","sn20.12:0.2","sn20.12:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 20.12\n1. Opammavagga\nDutiyasiṅgālasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 20.12\n1. Similes\nA Jackal (2nd)"}},{"id":"sn20.12:1","sourceIds":["sn20.12:1.1","sn20.12:1.2","sn20.12:1.3","sn20.12:1.4","sn20.12:1.5","sn20.12:1.6","sn20.12:1.7","sn20.12:1.8","sn20.12:1.9","sn20.12:1.10"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthiyaṁ viharati.\n“Assuttha no tumhe, bhikkhave, rattiyā paccūsasamayaṁ jarasiṅgālassa vassamānassā”ti?\n“Evaṁ, bhante”.\n“Siyā kho, bhikkhave, tasmiṁ jarasiṅgāle yā kāci kataññutā kataveditā, na tveva idhekacce sakyaputtiyapaṭiññe siyā yā kāci kataññutā kataveditā.\nTasmātiha, bhikkhave, evaṁ sikkhitabbaṁ:\n‘kataññuno bhavissāma katavedino;\nna ca no amhesu appakampi kataṁ nassissatī’ti.\nEvañhi vo, bhikkhave, sikkhitabban”ti.\nDvādasamaṁ.\nOpammavaggo paṭhamo.","en":"At Sāvatthī.\n“Mendicants, did you hear an old jackal howling at the crack of dawn?”\n“Yes, sir.”\n“There might be some gratitude and thankfulness in that old jackal, but there is none in a certain person here who claims to follow the Sakyan.\nSo you should train like this:\n‘We will be grateful and thankful.\nWe won’t forget even a small thing done for us.’\nThat’s how you should train.”"}},{"id":"sn20.12:2","sourceIds":["sn20.12:2.0","sn20.12:2.1","sn20.12:2.2","sn20.12:2.3","sn20.12:2.4","sn20.12:2.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tassuddānaṁ\nKūṭaṁ nakhasikhaṁ kulaṁ,\nokkhā satti dhanuggaho;\nĀṇi kaliṅgaro nāgo,\nbiḷāro dve siṅgālakāti.\nOpammasaṁyuttaṁ samattaṁ.","en":"The Linked Discourses with similes are complete."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn20.12/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."}