{"id":"sn5.8","title":"With Sīsupacālā","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn5.8","title":"With Sīsupacālā","units":[{"id":"sn5.8:0","sourceIds":["sn5.8:0.1","sn5.8:0.2","sn5.8:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 5.8\n1. Bhikkhunīvagga\nSīsupacālāsutta","en":"Linked Discourses 5.8\n1. Nuns\nWith Sīsupacālā"}},{"id":"sn5.8:1","sourceIds":["sn5.8:1.1","sn5.8:1.2","sn5.8:1.3","sn5.8:1.4","sn5.8:1.5","sn5.8:1.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sāvatthinidānaṁ.\nAtha kho sīsupacālā bhikkhunī pubbaṇhasamayaṁ nivāsetvā …pe…\naññatarasmiṁ rukkhamūle divāvihāraṁ nisīdi.\nAtha kho māro pāpimā yena sīsupacālā bhikkhunī tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā sīsupacālaṁ bhikkhuniṁ etadavoca:\n“kassa nu tvaṁ, bhikkhuni, pāsaṇḍaṁ rocesī”ti?\n“Na khvāhaṁ, āvuso, kassaci pāsaṇḍaṁ rocemī”ti.","en":"At Sāvatthī.\nThen the nun Sīsupacālā robed up in the morning …\nand sat at the root of a tree for the day’s meditation.\nThen Māra the Wicked went up to Sīsupacālā and said to her,\n“Nun, whose creed do you approve of?”\n“I don’t approve anyone’s creed, sir.”"}},{"id":"sn5.8:2","sourceIds":["sn5.8:2.1","sn5.8:2.2","sn5.8:2.3","sn5.8:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Kaṁ nu uddissa muṇḍāsi,\nSamaṇī viya dissasi;\nNa ca rocesi pāsaṇḍaṁ,\nKimiva carasi momūhā”ti.","en":"“In whose name did you shave your head?\nYou look like an ascetic,\nbut you don’t approve any creed.\nWhy do you wander as if lost?”"}},{"id":"sn5.8:3","sourceIds":["sn5.8:3.1","sn5.8:3.2","sn5.8:3.3","sn5.8:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Ito bahiddhā pāsaṇḍā,\ndiṭṭhīsu pasīdanti te;\nNa tesaṁ dhammaṁ rocemi,\nte dhammassa akovidā.","en":"“Followers of other creeds\nare confident in their views.\nBut I don’t approve their teaching,\nfor they’re no experts in the Dhamma."}},{"id":"sn5.8:4","sourceIds":["sn5.8:4.1","sn5.8:4.2","sn5.8:4.3","sn5.8:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atthi sakyakule jāto,\nbuddho appaṭipuggalo;\nSabbābhibhū māranudo,\nsabbatthamaparājito.","en":"But there is one born in the Sakyan clan,\nthe unrivaled Buddha,\nvanquisher of all, dispeller of Māra,\neverywhere undefeated,"}},{"id":"sn5.8:5","sourceIds":["sn5.8:5.1","sn5.8:5.2","sn5.8:5.3","sn5.8:5.4","sn5.8:5.5","sn5.8:5.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sabbattha mutto asito,\nsabbaṁ passati cakkhumā;\nSabbakammakkhayaṁ patto,\nvimutto upadhisaṅkhaye;\nSo mayhaṁ bhagavā satthā,\ntassa rocemi sāsanan”ti.","en":"everywhere freed, and unattached,\nthe Clear-eyed One sees all.\nHe has attained the end of all deeds,\nfreed with the ending of attachments.\nThat Blessed One is my Teacher,\nand I approve his instruction.”"}},{"id":"sn5.8:6","sourceIds":["sn5.8:6.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha kho māro pāpimā “jānāti maṁ sīsupacālā bhikkhunī”ti dukkhī dummano tatthevantaradhāyīti.","en":"Then Māra the Wicked, thinking, “The nun Sīsupacālā knows me!” miserable and sad, vanished right there."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn5.8/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."}