{"id":"sn29.21-50","title":"Thirty Discourses On How Giving Helps to Become Womb-Born, Etc.","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn29.21-50","title":"Thirty Discourses On How Giving Helps to Become Womb-Born, Etc.","units":[{"id":"sn29.21-50:0","sourceIds":["sn29.21-50:0.1","sn29.21-50:0.2","sn29.21-50:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 29.21–50\n1. Nāgavagga\nJalābujādidānūpakārasuttattiṁsaka","en":"Linked Discourses 29.21–50\n1. Dragons\nThirty Discourses On How Giving Helps to Become Womb-Born, Etc."}},{"id":"sn29.21-50:1","sourceIds":["sn29.21-50:1.1","sn29.21-50:1.2","sn29.21-50:1.3","sn29.21-50:1.4","sn29.21-50:1.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthinidānaṁ.\nEkamantaṁ nisinno kho so bhikkhu bhagavantaṁ etadavoca:\n“ko nu kho, bhante, hetu, ko paccayo, yena midhekacco kāyassa bhedā paraṁ maraṇā jalābujānaṁ nāgānaṁ …pe…\nsaṁsedajānaṁ nāgānaṁ …pe…\nopapātikānaṁ nāgānaṁ sahabyataṁ upapajjatī”ti?","en":"At Sāvatthī.\nSeated to one side, that mendicant said to the Buddha:\n“Sir, what is the cause, what is the reason why someone, when their body breaks up, after death, is reborn in the company of the womb-born dragons …\nmoisture-born dragons …\nspontaneously-born dragons?”"}},{"id":"sn29.21-50:2","sourceIds":["sn29.21-50:2.1","sn29.21-50:2.2","sn29.21-50:2.3","sn29.21-50:2.4","sn29.21-50:2.5","sn29.21-50:2.6","sn29.21-50:2.7","sn29.21-50:2.8","sn29.21-50:2.9","sn29.21-50:2.10"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Idha, bhikkhu, ekacco kāyena dvayakārī hoti, vācāya dvayakārī, manasā dvayakārī.\nTassa sutaṁ hoti:\n‘opapātikā nāgā dīghāyukā vaṇṇavanto sukhabahulā’ti.\nTassa evaṁ hoti:\n‘aho vatāhaṁ kāyassa bhedā paraṁ maraṇā opapātikānaṁ nāgānaṁ sahabyataṁ upapajjeyyan’ti.\nSo annaṁ deti …pe…\npānaṁ deti …pe…\npadīpeyyaṁ deti.\nSo kāyassa bhedā paraṁ maraṇā opapātikānaṁ nāgānaṁ sahabyataṁ upapajjati.\nAyaṁ kho, bhikkhu, hetu, ayaṁ paccayo, yena midhekacco kāyassa bhedā paraṁ maraṇā opapātikānaṁ nāgānaṁ sahabyataṁ upapajjatī”ti.","en":"“Mendicant, it’s when someone does both kinds of deeds by body, speech, and mind.\nAnd they’ve heard:\n‘The spontaneously-born dragons are long-lived, beautiful, and very happy.’\nThey think:\n‘If only, when my body breaks up, after death, I would be reborn in the company of the spontaneously-born dragons!’\nThey give food …\ndrink …\na lamp.\nWhen their body breaks up, after death, they’re reborn in the company of the spontaneously-born dragons.\nThis is the cause, this is the reason why someone, when their body breaks up, after death, is reborn in the company of the spontaneously-born dragons.”"}},{"id":"sn29.21-50:3","sourceIds":["sn29.21-50:3.1","sn29.21-50:3.2","sn29.21-50:3.3","sn29.21-50:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"(Iminā peyyālena dasa dasa suttantā kātabbā.\nEvaṁ catūsu yonīsu cattālīsaṁ veyyākaraṇā honti.\nPurimehi pana dasahi suttantehi saha honti paṇṇāsasuttantāti.)\nNāgavaggo paṭhamo.","en":"(Each set of ten discourses of this series should be told in full the same way.)"}},{"id":"sn29.21-50:4","sourceIds":["sn29.21-50:4.0","sn29.21-50:4.1","sn29.21-50:4.2","sn29.21-50:4.3","sn29.21-50:4.4","sn29.21-50:4.5","sn29.21-50:4.6","sn29.21-50:4.7"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tassuddānaṁ\nSuddhikaṁ paṇītataraṁ,\ncaturo ca uposathā;\nTassa sutaṁ caturo ca,\ndānūpakārā ca tālīsaṁ;\nPaṇṇāsa piṇḍato suttā,\nnāgamhi suppakāsitāti.\nNāgasaṁyuttaṁ samattaṁ.","en":"The Linked Discourses on dragons are complete."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn29.21-50/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."}