{"id":"sn29.2","title":"Better","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn29.2","title":"Better","units":[{"id":"sn29.2:0","sourceIds":["sn29.2:0.1","sn29.2:0.2","sn29.2:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 29.2\n1. Nāgavagga\nPaṇītatarasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 29.2\n1. Dragons\nBetter"}},{"id":"sn29.2:1","sourceIds":["sn29.2:1.1","sn29.2:1.2","sn29.2:1.3","sn29.2:1.4","sn29.2:1.5","sn29.2:1.6","sn29.2:1.7","sn29.2:1.8","sn29.2:1.9"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthinidānaṁ.\n“Catasso imā, bhikkhave, nāgayoniyo.\nKatamā catasso?\nAṇḍajā nāgā, jalābujā nāgā, saṁsedajā nāgā, opapātikā nāgā.\nTatra, bhikkhave, aṇḍajehi nāgehi jalābujā ca saṁsedajā ca opapātikā ca nāgā paṇītatarā.\nTatra, bhikkhave, aṇḍajehi ca jalābujehi ca nāgehi saṁsedajā ca opapātikā ca nāgā paṇītatarā.\nTatra, bhikkhave, aṇḍajehi ca jalābujehi ca saṁsedajehi ca nāgehi opapātikā nāgā paṇītatarā.\nImā kho, bhikkhave, catasso nāgayoniyo”ti.\nDutiyaṁ.","en":"At Sāvatthī.\n“Mendicants, dragons reproduce in these four ways.\nWhat four?\nDragons are born from an egg, from a womb, from moisture, or spontaneously.\nOf these, dragons born from a womb, from moisture, or spontaneously are better than those born from an egg.\nDragons born from moisture or spontaneously are better than those born from an egg or from a womb.\nDragons born spontaneously are better than those born from an egg, from a womb, or from moisture.\nThese are the four ways that dragons reproduce.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn29.2/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."}