{"id":"sn9.4","title":"Several Mendicants Set Out Wandering","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn9.4","title":"Several Mendicants Set Out Wandering","units":[{"id":"sn9.4:0","sourceIds":["sn9.4:0.1","sn9.4:0.2","sn9.4:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 9.4\n1. Vanavagga\nSambahulasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 9.4\n1. In the Woods\nSeveral Mendicants Set Out Wandering"}},{"id":"sn9.4:1","sourceIds":["sn9.4:1.1","sn9.4:1.2","sn9.4:1.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ekaṁ samayaṁ sambahulā bhikkhū kosalesu viharanti aññatarasmiṁ vanasaṇḍe.\nAtha kho te bhikkhū vassaṁvuṭṭhā temāsaccayena cārikaṁ pakkamiṁsu.\nAtha kho yā tasmiṁ vanasaṇḍe adhivatthā devatā te bhikkhū apassantī paridevamānā tāyaṁ velāyaṁ imaṁ gāthaṁ abhāsi:","en":"At one time several mendicants were staying in the land of the Kosalans in a certain forest grove.\nThen after completing the three months of the rainy season residence, those mendicants set out wandering.\nNot seeing those mendicants, the deity haunting that forest cried. And on that occasion they spoke this verse:"}},{"id":"sn9.4:2","sourceIds":["sn9.4:2.1","sn9.4:2.2","sn9.4:2.3","sn9.4:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Arati viya mejja khāyati,\nBahuke disvāna vivitte āsane;\nTe cittakathā bahussutā,\nKome gotamasāvakā gatā”ti.","en":"“Dissatisfaction, it seems to me today,\nseeing so many vacated seats.\nThey were so learned, such brilliant speakers!\nWhere have these disciples of Gotama gone?”"}},{"id":"sn9.4:3","sourceIds":["sn9.4:3.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Evaṁ vutte, aññatarā devatā taṁ devataṁ gāthāya paccabhāsi:","en":"When they had spoken, another deity replied with this verse:"}},{"id":"sn9.4:4","sourceIds":["sn9.4:4.1","sn9.4:4.2","sn9.4:4.3","sn9.4:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Māgadhaṁ gatā kosalaṁ gatā,\nEkacciyā pana vajjibhūmiyā;\nMagā viya asaṅgacārino,\nAniketā viharanti bhikkhavo”ti.","en":"“They’ve gone to Magadha, they’ve gone to Kosala,\nand some are in the Vajjian lands.\nLike deer that wander free of ties,\nthe mendicants live with no abode.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn9.4/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."}