{"id":"sn9.9","title":"A Vajji","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn9.9","title":"A Vajji","units":[{"id":"sn9.9:0","sourceIds":["sn9.9:0.1","sn9.9:0.2","sn9.9:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 9.9\n1. Vanavagga\nVajjiputtasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 9.9\n1. In the Woods\nA Vajji"}},{"id":"sn9.9:1","sourceIds":["sn9.9:1.1","sn9.9:1.2","sn9.9:1.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ekaṁ samayaṁ aññataro vajjiputtako bhikkhu vesāliyaṁ viharati aññatarasmiṁ vanasaṇḍe.\nTena kho pana samayena vesāliyaṁ vajjiputtako sabbaratticāro hoti.\nAtha kho so bhikkhu vesāliyā tūriyatāḷitavāditanigghosasaddaṁ sutvā paridevamāno tāyaṁ velāyaṁ imaṁ gāthaṁ abhāsi:","en":"At one time a certain Vajjian mendicant was staying near Vesālī in a certain forest grove.\nNow at that time the Vajjis were holding an all-night event in Vesālī.\nThen that mendicant, complaining at the noise of musical instruments being beaten and played, on that occasion spoke this verse:"}},{"id":"sn9.9:2","sourceIds":["sn9.9:2.1","sn9.9:2.2","sn9.9:2.3","sn9.9:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Ekakā mayaṁ araññe viharāma,\nApaviddhaṁva vanasmiṁ dārukaṁ;\nEtādisikāya rattiyā,\nKo su nāmamhehi pāpiyo”ti.","en":"“We dwell alone in the wilderness,\nlike a log dumped in the forest.\nOn a night like this,\nwho’s worse off than me?”"}},{"id":"sn9.9:3","sourceIds":["sn9.9:3.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha kho yā tasmiṁ vanasaṇḍe adhivatthā devatā tassa bhikkhuno anukampikā atthakāmā taṁ bhikkhuṁ saṁvejetukāmā yena so bhikkhu tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā taṁ bhikkhuṁ gāthāya ajjhabhāsi:","en":"The deity haunting that forest had sympathy for that mendicant, and wanted what’s best for them. So they approached that mendicant wanting to stir them up, and addressed them in verse:"}},{"id":"sn9.9:4","sourceIds":["sn9.9:4.1","sn9.9:4.2","sn9.9:4.3","sn9.9:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Ekakova tvaṁ araññe viharasi,\nApaviddhaṁva vanasmiṁ dārukaṁ;\nTassa te bahukā pihayanti,\nNerayikā viya saggagāminan”ti.","en":"“You dwell alone in the wilderness,\nlike a log dumped in the forest.\nLots of people are jealous of you,\nlike beings in hell of those going to heaven.”"}},{"id":"sn9.9:5","sourceIds":["sn9.9:5.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha kho so bhikkhu tāya devatāya saṁvejito saṁvegamāpādīti.","en":"Impelled by that deity, that mendicant was struck with a sense of urgency."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn9.9/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."}