{"id":"sn4.18","title":"Alms Food","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn4.18","title":"Alms Food","units":[{"id":"sn4.18:0","sourceIds":["sn4.18:0.1","sn4.18:0.2","sn4.18:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 4.18\n2. Dutiyavagga\nPiṇḍasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 4.18\n2. Rule\nAlms Food"}},{"id":"sn4.18:1","sourceIds":["sn4.18:1.1","sn4.18:1.2","sn4.18:1.3","sn4.18:1.4","sn4.18:1.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ekaṁ samayaṁ bhagavā magadhesu viharati pañcasālāyaṁ brāhmaṇagāme.\nTena kho pana samayena pañcasālāyaṁ brāhmaṇagāme kumārikānaṁ pāhunakāni bhavanti.\nAtha kho bhagavā pubbaṇhasamayaṁ nivāsetvā pattacīvaramādāya pañcasālaṁ brāhmaṇagāmaṁ piṇḍāya pāvisi.\nTena kho pana samayena pañcasāleyyakā brāhmaṇagahapatikā mārena pāpimatā anvāviṭṭhā bhavanti:\n“mā samaṇo gotamo piṇḍamalatthā”ti.","en":"At one time the Buddha was staying in the land of the Magadhans near the brahmin village of Pañcasālā.\nNow at that time in Pañcasālā the young maidens were occupied with guests.\nThen the Buddha robed up in the morning and, taking his bowl and robe, entered Pañcasālā for alms.\nNow at that time Māra had possessed the brahmins and householders of Pañcasālā, so that they thought,\n“Don’t let the ascetic Gotama get any alms!”"}},{"id":"sn4.18:2","sourceIds":["sn4.18:2.1","sn4.18:2.2","sn4.18:2.3","sn4.18:2.4","sn4.18:2.5","sn4.18:2.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha kho bhagavā yathādhotena pattena pañcasālaṁ brāhmaṇagāmaṁ piṇḍāya pāvisi tathādhotena pattena paṭikkami.\nAtha kho māro pāpimā yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā bhagavantaṁ etadavoca:\n“api tvaṁ, samaṇa, piṇḍamalatthā”ti?\n“Tathā nu tvaṁ, pāpima, akāsi yathāhaṁ piṇḍaṁ na labheyyan”ti.\n“Tena hi, bhante, bhagavā dutiyampi pañcasālaṁ brāhmaṇagāmaṁ piṇḍāya pavisatu.\nTathāhaṁ karissāmi yathā bhagavā piṇḍaṁ lacchatī”ti.","en":"Then the Buddha left the village with his bowl as clean-washed as it was when he entered for alms.\nThen Māra the Wicked went up to the Buddha and said to him,\n“Well, ascetic, did you get any alms?”\n“Wicked One, did you make sure I didn’t get any alms?”\n“Well then, sir, let the Buddha enter Pañcasālā a second time for alms.\nI’ll make sure you get alms.”"}},{"id":"sn4.18:3","sourceIds":["sn4.18:3.1","sn4.18:3.2","sn4.18:3.3","sn4.18:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Apuññaṁ pasavi māro,\nāsajja naṁ tathāgataṁ;\nKiṁ nu maññasi pāpima,\nna me pāpaṁ vipaccati.","en":"“Māra has produced wickedness\nin attacking the Realized One.\nWicked One, do you imagine that\nyour wickedness won’t bear fruit?"}},{"id":"sn4.18:4","sourceIds":["sn4.18:4.1","sn4.18:4.2","sn4.18:4.3","sn4.18:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Susukhaṁ vata jīvāma,\nyesaṁ no natthi kiñcanaṁ;\nPītibhakkhā bhavissāma,\ndevā ābhassarā yathā”ti.","en":"Let us live so very happily,\nwe who have nothing.\nWe shall feed on rapture,\nlike the gods of sublime luminosity.”"}},{"id":"sn4.18:5","sourceIds":["sn4.18:5.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha kho māro pāpimā “jānāti maṁ bhagavā, jānāti maṁ sugato”ti dukkhī dummano tatthevantaradhāyīti.","en":"Then Māra the Wicked, thinking, “The Buddha knows me! The Holy One knows me!” miserable and sad, vanished right there."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn4.18/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."}