{"id":"sn29.6","title":"Sabbath (4th)","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn29.6","title":"Sabbath (4th)","units":[{"id":"sn29.6:0","sourceIds":["sn29.6:0.1","sn29.6:0.2","sn29.6:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 29.6\n1. Nāgavagga\nCatutthauposathasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 29.6\n1. Dragons\nSabbath (4th)"}},{"id":"sn29.6:1","sourceIds":["sn29.6:1.1","sn29.6:1.2","sn29.6:1.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthinidānaṁ.\nEkamantaṁ nisinno kho so bhikkhu bhagavantaṁ etadavoca:\n“ko nu kho, bhante, hetu, ko paccayo, yena m’idhekacce opapātikā nāgā uposathaṁ upavasanti vossaṭṭhakāyā ca bhavantī”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 some spontaneously-born dragons keep the sabbath, having transformed their bodies?”"}},{"id":"sn29.6:2","sourceIds":["sn29.6:2.1","sn29.6:2.2","sn29.6:2.3","sn29.6:2.4","sn29.6:2.5","sn29.6:2.6","sn29.6:2.7"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Idha, bhikkhu, ekaccānaṁ opapātikānaṁ nāgānaṁ evaṁ hoti:\n‘mayaṁ kho pubbe kāyena dvayakārino ahumha, vācāya dvayakārino, manasā dvayakārino.\nTe mayaṁ kāyena dvayakārino, vācāya dvayakārino, manasā dvayakārino, kāyassa bhedā paraṁ maraṇā opapātikānaṁ nāgānaṁ sahabyataṁ upapannā.\nSacajja mayaṁ kāyena sucaritaṁ careyyāma, vācāya … manasā sucaritaṁ careyyāma, evaṁ mayaṁ kāyassa bhedā paraṁ maraṇā sugatiṁ saggaṁ lokaṁ upapajjeyyāma.\nHanda mayaṁ etarahi kāyena sucaritaṁ carāma, vācāya … manasā sucaritaṁ carāmā’ti.\nAyaṁ kho, bhikkhu, hetu, ayaṁ paccayo, yena m’idhekacce opapātikā nāgā uposathaṁ upavasanti vossaṭṭhakāyā ca bhavantī”ti.\nChaṭṭhaṁ.","en":"“Mendicant, it’s when some spontaneously-born dragons think:\n‘In the past we did both kinds of deeds by body, speech, and mind.\nWhen the body broke up, after death, we were reborn in the company of the spontaneously-born dragons.\nIf today we do good things by body, speech, and mind, when the body breaks up, after death, we may be reborn in a good place, a heavenly realm.\nCome, let us do good things by way of body, speech, and mind.’\nThis is the cause, this is the reason why some spontaneously-born dragons keep the sabbath, having transformed their bodies.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn29.6/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."}