{"id":"sn29.7","title":"They’ve Heard","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn29.7","title":"They’ve Heard","units":[{"id":"sn29.7:0","sourceIds":["sn29.7:0.1","sn29.7:0.2","sn29.7:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 29.7\n1. Nāgavagga\nSutasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 29.7\n1. Dragons\nThey’ve Heard"}},{"id":"sn29.7:1","sourceIds":["sn29.7:1.1","sn29.7:1.2","sn29.7:1.3"],"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 aṇḍajānaṁ 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 egg-born dragons?”"}},{"id":"sn29.7:2","sourceIds":["sn29.7:2.1","sn29.7:2.2","sn29.7:2.3","sn29.7:2.4","sn29.7:2.5","sn29.7:2.6","sn29.7:2.7","sn29.7:2.8"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Idha, bhikkhu, ekacco kāyena dvayakārī hoti, vācāya dvayakārī hoti, manasā dvayakārī hoti.\nTassa sutaṁ hoti:\n‘aṇḍajā nāgā dīghāyukā vaṇṇavanto sukhabahulā’ti.\nTassa evaṁ hoti:\n‘aho vatāhaṁ kāyassa bhedā paraṁ maraṇā aṇḍajānaṁ nāgānaṁ sahabyataṁ upapajjeyyan’ti.\nSo kāyassa bhedā paraṁ maraṇā aṇḍajānaṁ nāgānaṁ sahabyataṁ upapajjati.\nAyaṁ kho, bhikkhu, hetu, ayaṁ paccayo, yena midhekacco kāyassa bhedā paraṁ maraṇā aṇḍajānaṁ nāgānaṁ sahabyataṁ upapajjatī”ti.\nSattamaṁ.","en":"“Mendicant, it’s when someone does both kinds of deeds by body, speech, and mind.\nAnd they’ve heard:\n‘The egg-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 egg-born dragons!’\nWhen their body breaks up, after death, they’re reborn in the company of the egg-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 egg-born dragons.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn29.7/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."}