{"id":"sn6.12","title":"About Devadatta","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn6.12","title":"About Devadatta","units":[{"id":"sn6.12:0","sourceIds":["sn6.12:0.1","sn6.12:0.2","sn6.12:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 6.12\n2. Dutiyavagga\nDevadattasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 6.12\nChapter Two\nAbout Devadatta"}},{"id":"sn6.12:1","sourceIds":["sn6.12:1.1","sn6.12:1.2","sn6.12:1.3","sn6.12:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Evaṁ me sutaṁ—\nekaṁ samayaṁ bhagavā rājagahe viharati gijjhakūṭe pabbate acirapakkante devadatte.\nAtha kho brahmā sahampati abhikkantāya rattiyā abhikkantavaṇṇo kevalakappaṁ gijjhakūṭaṁ pabbataṁ obhāsetvā yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā bhagavantaṁ abhivādetvā ekamantaṁ aṭṭhāsi.\nEkamantaṁ ṭhito kho brahmā sahampati devadattaṁ ārabbha bhagavato santike imaṁ gāthaṁ abhāsi:","en":"So I have heard.\nAt one time the Buddha was staying near Rājagaha, on the Vulture’s Peak Mountain, not long after Devadatta had left.\nThen, late at night, the glorious divinity Sahampati, lighting up the entire Vulture’s Peak, went up to the Buddha, bowed, stood to one side,\nand spoke this verse in the Buddha’s presence:"}},{"id":"sn6.12:2","sourceIds":["sn6.12:2.1","sn6.12:2.2","sn6.12:2.3","sn6.12:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Phalaṁ ve kadaliṁ hanti,\nphalaṁ veḷuṁ phalaṁ naḷaṁ;\nSakkāro kāpurisaṁ hanti,\ngabbho assatariṁ yathā”ti.","en":"“The banana plant is destroyed by its own fruit,\nas are the bamboo and the reed.\nHonor destroys a reprobate,\nas pregnancy destroys a mule.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn6.12/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."}