{"id":"snp1.5","title":"With Cunda","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"snp1.5","title":"With Cunda","units":[{"id":"snp1.5:0","sourceIds":["snp1.5:0.1","snp1.5:0.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sutta Nipāta 1.5\nCundasutta","en":"Anthology of Discourses 1.5\nWith Cunda"}},{"id":"snp1.5:1","sourceIds":["snp1.5:1.1","snp1.5:1.2","snp1.5:1.3","snp1.5:1.4","snp1.5:1.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Pucchāmi muniṁ pahūtapaññaṁ,\n(iti cundo kammāraputto)\nBuddhaṁ dhammassāmiṁ vītataṇhaṁ;\nDvipaduttamaṁ sārathīnaṁ pavaraṁ,\nKati loke samaṇā tadiṅgha brūhi”.","en":"“I ask the sage abounding in wisdom,”\nsaid Cunda the smith,\n“the Buddha, master of the teaching, free of craving,\nbest of men, excellent charioteer, please tell me this:\nhow many ascetics are there in the world?”"}},{"id":"snp1.5:2","sourceIds":["snp1.5:2.1","snp1.5:2.2","snp1.5:2.3","snp1.5:2.4","snp1.5:2.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Caturo samaṇā na pañcamatthi,\n(cundāti bhagavā)\nTe te āvikaromi sakkhipuṭṭho;\nMaggajino maggadesako ca,\nMagge jīvati yo ca maggadūsī”.","en":"“There are four ascetics, not a fifth.”\nsaid the Buddha to Cunda,\n“Being asked to bear witness, I will explain them to you:\nthe path-victor, the path-teacher,\nthe path-liver, and the path-wrecker.”"}},{"id":"snp1.5:3","sourceIds":["snp1.5:3.1","snp1.5:3.2","snp1.5:3.3","snp1.5:3.4","snp1.5:3.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Kaṁ maggajinaṁ vadanti buddhā,\n(iti cundo kammāraputto)\nMaggakkhāyī kathaṁ atulyo hoti;\nMagge jīvati me brūhi puṭṭho,\nAtha me āvikarohi maggadūsiṁ”.","en":"“Who is a path-victor according to the Buddhas?”\nsaid Cunda the smith,\n“and how is one an unequaled explainer of the path?\nTell me when asked about one who lives the path,\nthen declare the path-wrecker.”"}},{"id":"snp1.5:4","sourceIds":["snp1.5:4.1","snp1.5:4.2","snp1.5:4.3","snp1.5:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Yo tiṇṇakathaṅkatho visallo,\nNibbānābhirato anānugiddho;\nLokassa sadevakassa netā,\nTādiṁ maggajinaṁ vadanti buddhā.","en":"“Rid of indecision, free of thorns,\ndelighting in extinguishment, not fawning,\na guide for the world with its gods.\nThe Buddhas say one such is victor of the path."}},{"id":"snp1.5:5","sourceIds":["snp1.5:5.1","snp1.5:5.2","snp1.5:5.3","snp1.5:5.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Paramaṁ paramanti yodha ñatvā,\nAkkhāti vibhajate idheva dhammaṁ;\nTaṁ kaṅkhachidaṁ muniṁ anejaṁ,\nDutiyaṁ bhikkhunamāhu maggadesiṁ.","en":"Knowing the ultimate as ultimate,\nthey explain and analyze the teaching right here.\nThat sage unstirred, with doubt cut off,\nis the second mendicant, I say, the teacher of the path."}},{"id":"snp1.5:6","sourceIds":["snp1.5:6.1","snp1.5:6.2","snp1.5:6.3","snp1.5:6.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yo dhammapade sudesite,\nMagge jīvati saññato satīmā;\nAnavajjapadāni sevamāno,\nTatiyaṁ bhikkhunamāhu maggajīviṁ.","en":"Living restrained and mindful on the path\nof the well-taught passage of teaching,\ncultivating blameless states,\nis the third mendicant, I say, the path-liver."}},{"id":"snp1.5:7","sourceIds":["snp1.5:7.1","snp1.5:7.2","snp1.5:7.3","snp1.5:7.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Chadanaṁ katvāna subbatānaṁ,\nPakkhandī kuladūsako pagabbho;\nMāyāvī asaññato palāpo,\nPatirūpena caraṁ sa maggadūsī.","en":"Dressed like one true to their vows,\npushy, rude, a corrupter of families,\ndevious, unrestrained, chaff,\nthe path-wrecker’s life is a sham."}},{"id":"snp1.5:8","sourceIds":["snp1.5:8.1","snp1.5:8.2","snp1.5:8.3","snp1.5:8.4","snp1.5:8.5","snp1.5:8.6","snp1.5:8.7"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ete ca paṭivijjhi yo gahaṭṭho,\nSutavā ariyasāvako sapañño;\nSabbe netādisāti ñatvā,\nIti disvā na hāpeti tassa saddhā;\nKathaṁ hi duṭṭhena asampaduṭṭhaṁ,\nSuddhaṁ asuddhena samaṁ kareyyā”ti.\nCundasuttaṁ pañcamaṁ.","en":"A layperson who gets this,\na learned, wise noble disciple,\nknows that ‘They are not all like that one’.\nSo when they see them they don’t lose their faith.\nFor how could one equate them—\nthe corrupt with the uncorrupt, the pure with the impure?”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/snp1.5/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."}