{"id":"sn4.3","title":"Beautiful","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn4.3","title":"Beautiful","units":[{"id":"sn4.3:0","sourceIds":["sn4.3:0.1","sn4.3:0.2","sn4.3:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 4.3\n1. Paṭhamavagga\nSubhasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 4.3\n1. Lifespan\nBeautiful"}},{"id":"sn4.3:1","sourceIds":["sn4.3:1.1","sn4.3:1.2","sn4.3:1.3","sn4.3:1.4","sn4.3:1.5"],"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, yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā bhagavato avidūre uccāvacā vaṇṇanibhā upadaṁseti, subhā ceva asubhā ca.\nAtha kho bhagavā “māro ayaṁ pāpimā” iti viditvā māraṁ pāpimantaṁ gāthāhi 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, approached him, and while not far away, displayed a rainbow of bright colors, both beautiful and ugly.\nThen the Buddha, knowing that this was Māra the Wicked, replied to him in verse:"}},{"id":"sn4.3:2","sourceIds":["sn4.3:2.1","sn4.3:2.2","sn4.3:2.3","sn4.3:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Saṁsaraṁ dīghamaddhānaṁ,\nvaṇṇaṁ katvā subhāsubhaṁ;\nAlaṁ te tena pāpima,\nnihato tvamasi antaka.","en":"“Transmigrating for such a long time,\nyou’ve made forms beautiful and ugly.\nEnough of this, Wicked One!\nYou’re beaten, terminator."}},{"id":"sn4.3:3","sourceIds":["sn4.3:3.1","sn4.3:3.2","sn4.3:3.3","sn4.3:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ye ca kāyena vācāya,\nmanasā ca susaṁvutā;\nNa te māravasānugā,\nna te mārassa baddhagū”ti.","en":"Those who are well restrained\nin body, speech, and mind\ndon’t fall under Māra’s sway,\nnor are they your footmen.”"}},{"id":"sn4.3:4","sourceIds":["sn4.3:4.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha kho māro …pe… tatthevantaradhāyīti.","en":"Then Māra … vanished right there."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn4.3/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."}