{"id":"sn4.2","title":"In the Form of an Elephant King","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn4.2","title":"In the Form of an Elephant King","units":[{"id":"sn4.2:0","sourceIds":["sn4.2:0.1","sn4.2:0.2","sn4.2:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 4.2\n1. Paṭhamavagga\nHatthirājavaṇṇasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 4.2\n1. Lifespan\nIn the Form of an Elephant King"}},{"id":"sn4.2:1","sourceIds":["sn4.2:1.1","sn4.2:1.2","sn4.2:1.3","sn4.2:1.4","sn4.2:1.5","sn4.2:1.6","sn4.2:1.7","sn4.2:1.8","sn4.2:1.9","sn4.2:1.10","sn4.2:1.11"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Evaṁ me sutaṁ—\nekaṁ samayaṁ bhagavā uruvelāyaṁ viharati najjā nerañjarāya tīre ajapālanigrodhamūle paṭhamābhisambuddho.\nTena kho pana samayena bhagavā rattandhakāratimisāyaṁ abbhokāse nisinno hoti, devo ca ekamekaṁ phusāyati.\nAtha kho māro pāpimā bhagavato bhayaṁ chambhitattaṁ lomahaṁsaṁ uppādetukāmo mahantaṁ hatthirājavaṇṇaṁ abhinimminitvā yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkami.\nSeyyathāpi nāma mahāariṭṭhako maṇi;\nevamassa sīsaṁ hoti.\nSeyyathāpi nāma suddhaṁ rūpiyaṁ;\nevamassa dantā honti.\nSeyyathāpi nāma mahatī naṅgalīsā;\nevamassa soṇḍo hoti.\nAtha kho bhagavā “māro ayaṁ pāpimā” iti viditvā māraṁ pāpimantaṁ gāthāya ajjhabhāsi:","en":"So I have heard.\nAt one time, when he was first awakened, the Buddha was staying in Uruvelā at the root of the goatherd’s banyan tree on the bank of the Nerañjarā River.\nNow at that time the Buddha was meditating in the open during the dark of night, while a gentle rain drizzled down.\nThen Māra the Wicked, wanting to make the Buddha feel fear, terror, and goosebumps, manifested in the form of a big elephant king and approached him.\nIts head was like a big block of soapstone.\nIts tusks were like pure silver.\nIts trunk was like a long plough pole.\nThen the Buddha, knowing that this was Māra the Wicked, addressed him in verse:"}},{"id":"sn4.2:2","sourceIds":["sn4.2:2.1","sn4.2:2.2","sn4.2:2.3","sn4.2:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Saṁsaraṁ dīghamaddhānaṁ,\nVaṇṇaṁ katvā subhāsubhaṁ;\nAlaṁ te tena pāpima,\nNihato tvamasi antakā”ti.","en":"“Transmigrating for such a long time,\nyou’ve made forms beautiful and ugly.\nEnough of this, Wicked One!\nYou’re beaten, terminator!”"}},{"id":"sn4.2:3","sourceIds":["sn4.2:3.1"],"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/sn4.2/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."}