{"id":"snp5.11","title":"The Questions of Kappa","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"snp5.11","title":"The Questions of Kappa","units":[{"id":"snp5.11:0","sourceIds":["snp5.11:0.1","snp5.11:0.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sutta Nipāta 5.11\nKappamāṇavapucchā","en":"Anthology of Discourses 5.11\nThe Questions of Kappa"}},{"id":"snp5.11:1","sourceIds":["snp5.11:1.1","snp5.11:1.2","snp5.11:1.3","snp5.11:1.4","snp5.11:1.5","snp5.11:1.6","snp5.11:1.7"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Majjhe sarasmiṁ tiṭṭhataṁ,\n(iccāyasmā kappo)\nOghe jāte mahabbhaye;\nJarāmaccuparetānaṁ,\nDīpaṁ pabrūhi mārisa;\nTvañca me dīpamakkhāhi,\nYathāyidaṁ nāparaṁ siyā”.","en":"“For those overwhelmed by old age and death,”\nsaid Venerable Kappa,\n“stuck mid-stream\nas the terrifying flood arises,\ntell me an island, good fellow.\nExplain to me an island\nso this may occur no further.”"}},{"id":"snp5.11:2","sourceIds":["snp5.11:2.1","snp5.11:2.2","snp5.11:2.3","snp5.11:2.4","snp5.11:2.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Majjhe sarasmiṁ tiṭṭhataṁ,\n(kappāti bhagavā)\nOghe jāte mahabbhaye;\nJarāmaccuparetānaṁ,\nDīpaṁ pabrūmi kappa te.","en":"“For those overwhelmed by old age and death,”\nreplied the Buddha,\n“stuck mid-stream\nas the terrifying flood arises,\nI shall tell you an island, Kappa."}},{"id":"snp5.11:3","sourceIds":["snp5.11:3.1","snp5.11:3.2","snp5.11:3.3","snp5.11:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Akiñcanaṁ anādānaṁ,\netaṁ dīpaṁ anāparaṁ;\nNibbānaṁ iti naṁ brūmi,\njarāmaccuparikkhayaṁ.","en":"Having nothing, taking nothing:\nthis is the island with nothing further.\nI call it extinguishment,\nthe ending of old age and death."}},{"id":"snp5.11:4","sourceIds":["snp5.11:4.1","snp5.11:4.2","snp5.11:4.3","snp5.11:4.4","snp5.11:4.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Etadaññāya ye satā,\nDiṭṭhadhammābhinibbutā;\nNa te māravasānugā,\nNa te mārassa paddhagū”ti.\nKappamāṇavapucchā dasamā.","en":"Those who have fully understood this, mindful,\nare quenched in this very life.\nThey don’t fall under Māra’s sway,\nnor are they his footmen.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/snp5.11/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."}