{"id":"sn4.10","title":"Lifespan (2nd)","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn4.10","title":"Lifespan (2nd)","units":[{"id":"sn4.10:0","sourceIds":["sn4.10:0.1","sn4.10:0.2","sn4.10:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 4.10\n1. Paṭhamavagga\nDutiyaāyusutta","en":"Linked Discourses 4.10\n1. Lifespan\nLifespan (2nd)"}},{"id":"sn4.10:1","sourceIds":["sn4.10:1.1","sn4.10:1.2","sn4.10:1.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Evaṁ me sutaṁ—\nekaṁ samayaṁ bhagavā rājagahe viharati veḷuvane kalandakanivāpe.\nTatra kho bhagavā …pe… etadavoca:","en":"So I have heard.\nAt one time the Buddha was staying near Rājagaha in the Bamboo Grove, the squirrels’ feeding ground.\nThere the Buddha … said:"}},{"id":"sn4.10:2","sourceIds":["sn4.10:2.1","sn4.10:2.2","sn4.10:2.3","sn4.10:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Appamidaṁ, bhikkhave, manussānaṁ āyu.\nGamanīyo samparāyo, kattabbaṁ kusalaṁ, caritabbaṁ brahmacariyaṁ.\nNatthi jātassa amaraṇaṁ.\nYo, bhikkhave, ciraṁ jīvati, so vassasataṁ appaṁ vā bhiyyo”ti.","en":"“Mendicants, the lifespan of humans is short.\nWe are headed for lives to come. We must do what is skillful, we must practice the spiritual life.\nNo one born is immortal.\nA long life is a hundred years or a little more.”"}},{"id":"sn4.10:3","sourceIds":["sn4.10:3.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha kho māro pāpimā yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā bhagavantaṁ gāthāya ajjhabhāsi:","en":"Then Māra the Wicked went up to the Buddha and addressed him in verse:"}},{"id":"sn4.10:4","sourceIds":["sn4.10:4.1","sn4.10:4.2","sn4.10:4.3","sn4.10:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Nāccayanti ahorattā,\nJīvitaṁ nūparujjhati;\nĀyu anupariyāyati maccānaṁ,\nNemīva rathakubbaran”ti.","en":"“The days and nights don’t rush by,\nand life isn’t cut short.\nThe life of mortals keeps rolling on,\nlike a chariot’s rim around the hub.”"}},{"id":"sn4.10:5","sourceIds":["sn4.10:5.1","sn4.10:5.2","sn4.10:5.3","sn4.10:5.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Accayanti ahorattā,\njīvitaṁ uparujjhati;\nĀyu khīyati maccānaṁ,\nkunnadīnaṁva odakan”ti.","en":"“The days and nights rush by,\nand then life is cut short.\nThe life of mortals wastes away,\nlike the water in tiny streams.”"}},{"id":"sn4.10:6","sourceIds":["sn4.10:6.1","sn4.10:6.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha kho māro pāpimā “jānāti maṁ bhagavā, jānāti maṁ sugato”ti dukkhī dummano tatthevantaradhāyīti.\nPaṭhamo vaggo.","en":"Then Māra the Wicked, thinking, “The Buddha knows me! The Holy One knows me!” miserable and sad, vanished right there."}},{"id":"sn4.10:7","sourceIds":["sn4.10:7.0","sn4.10:7.1","sn4.10:7.2","sn4.10:7.3","sn4.10:7.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tassuddānaṁ\nTapokammañca nāgo ca,\nsubhaṁ pāsena te duve;\nSappo supati nandanaṁ,\nāyunā apare duveti."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn4.10/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."}