{"id":"sn5.4","title":"With Vijayā","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn5.4","title":"With Vijayā","units":[{"id":"sn5.4:0","sourceIds":["sn5.4:0.1","sn5.4:0.2","sn5.4:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 5.4\n1. Bhikkhunīvagga\nVijayāsutta","en":"Linked Discourses 5.4\n1. Nuns\nWith Vijayā"}},{"id":"sn5.4:1","sourceIds":["sn5.4:1.1","sn5.4:1.2","sn5.4:1.3","sn5.4:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthinidānaṁ.\nAtha kho vijayā bhikkhunī pubbaṇhasamayaṁ nivāsetvā …pe…\naññatarasmiṁ rukkhamūle divāvihāraṁ nisīdi.\nAtha kho māro pāpimā vijayāya bhikkhuniyā bhayaṁ chambhitattaṁ lomahaṁsaṁ uppādetukāmo samādhimhā cāvetukāmo yena vijayā bhikkhunī tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā vijayaṁ bhikkhuniṁ gāthāya ajjhabhāsi:","en":"At Sāvatthī.\nThen the nun Vijayā robed up in the morning …\nand sat at the root of a tree for the day’s meditation.\nThen Māra the Wicked, wanting to make the nun Vijayā feel fear, terror, and goosebumps, wanting to make her fall away from immersion, went up to her and addressed her in verse:"}},{"id":"sn5.4:2","sourceIds":["sn5.4:2.1","sn5.4:2.2","sn5.4:2.3","sn5.4:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Daharā tvaṁ rūpavatī,\nahañca daharo susu;\nPañcaṅgikena turiyena,\nehayyebhiramāmase”ti.","en":"“You’re so young and beautiful,\nand I’m a youth in my prime.\nCome, my lady, let us enjoy\nthe music of a five-piece band.”"}},{"id":"sn5.4:3","sourceIds":["sn5.4:3.1","sn5.4:3.2","sn5.4:3.3","sn5.4:3.4","sn5.4:3.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha kho vijayāya bhikkhuniyā etadahosi:\n“ko nu khvāyaṁ manusso vā amanusso vā gāthaṁ bhāsatī”ti?\nAtha kho vijayāya bhikkhuniyā etadahosi:\n“māro kho ayaṁ pāpimā mama bhayaṁ chambhitattaṁ lomahaṁsaṁ uppādetukāmo samādhimhā cāvetukāmo gāthaṁ bhāsatī”ti.\nAtha kho vijayā bhikkhunī “māro ayaṁ pāpimā” iti viditvā māraṁ pāpimantaṁ gāthāhi paccabhāsi:","en":"Then the nun Vijayā thought,\n“Who’s speaking this verse, a human or a non-human?”\nThen she thought,\n“This is Māra the Wicked, wanting to make me feel fear, terror, and goosebumps, wanting to make me fall away from immersion!”\nThen Vijayā, knowing that this was Māra the Wicked, replied to him in verse:"}},{"id":"sn5.4:4","sourceIds":["sn5.4:4.1","sn5.4:4.2","sn5.4:4.3","sn5.4:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Rūpā saddā rasā gandhā,\nphoṭṭhabbā ca manoramā;\nNiyyātayāmi tuyheva,\nmāra nāhaṁ tenatthikā.","en":"“Sights, sounds, tastes, smells,\nand touches so delightful.\nI hand them right back to you, Māra,\nfor I have no use for them."}},{"id":"sn5.4:5","sourceIds":["sn5.4:5.1","sn5.4:5.2","sn5.4:5.3","sn5.4:5.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Iminā pūtikāyena,\nbhindanena pabhaṅgunā;\nAṭṭīyāmi harāyāmi,\nkāmataṇhā samūhatā.","en":"This body is rotting,\ndecaying and frail.\nI’m horrified and repelled by it,\nand I’ve eradicated sensual craving."}},{"id":"sn5.4:6","sourceIds":["sn5.4:6.1","sn5.4:6.2","sn5.4:6.3","sn5.4:6.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ye ca rūpūpagā sattā,\nye ca arūpaṭṭhāyino;\nYā ca santā samāpatti,\nsabbattha vihato tamo”ti.","en":"There are beings in the realm of luminous form,\nand others stuck in the formless.\nI’ve destroyed the darkness\nregarding all such peaceful attainments.”"}},{"id":"sn5.4:7","sourceIds":["sn5.4:7.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha kho māro pāpimā “jānāti maṁ vijayā bhikkhunī”ti dukkhī dummano tatthevantaradhāyīti.","en":"Then Māra the Wicked, thinking, “The nun Vijayā knows me!” miserable and sad, vanished right there."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn5.4/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."}