{"id":"snp5.12","title":"The Questions of Jatukaṇṇī","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"snp5.12","title":"The Questions of Jatukaṇṇī","units":[{"id":"snp5.12:0","sourceIds":["snp5.12:0.1","snp5.12:0.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sutta Nipāta 5.12\nJatukaṇṇimāṇavapucchā","en":"Anthology of Discourses 5.12\nThe Questions of Jatukaṇṇī"}},{"id":"snp5.12:1","sourceIds":["snp5.12:1.1","snp5.12:1.2","snp5.12:1.3","snp5.12:1.4","snp5.12:1.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Sutvānahaṁ vīramakāmakāmiṁ,\n(iccāyasmā jatukaṇṇi)\nOghātigaṁ puṭṭhumakāmamāgamaṁ;\nSantipadaṁ brūhi sahajanetta,\nYathātacchaṁ bhagavā brūhi metaṁ.","en":"“Hearing of the hero with no desire for sensual pleasures,”\nsaid Venerable Jatukaṇṇī,\n“who has passed over the flood, I’ve come with a question for that desireless one.\nTell me the state of peace, O natural visionary.\nTell me this, Blessed One, as it really is."}},{"id":"snp5.12:2","sourceIds":["snp5.12:2.1","snp5.12:2.2","snp5.12:2.3","snp5.12:2.4","snp5.12:2.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Bhagavā hi kāme abhibhuyya iriyati,\nĀdiccova pathaviṁ tejī tejasā;\nParittapaññassa me bhūripañña,\nĀcikkha dhammaṁ yamahaṁ vijaññaṁ;\nJātijarāya idha vippahānaṁ”.","en":"For, having mastered sensual desires, the Blessed One proceeds,\nas the blazing sun shines on the earth.\nMay you of vast wisdom explain the teaching\nto me of little wisdom so that I may understand\nthe giving up of rebirth and old age here.”"}},{"id":"snp5.12:3","sourceIds":["snp5.12:3.1","snp5.12:3.2","snp5.12:3.3","snp5.12:3.4","snp5.12:3.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Kāmesu vinaya gedhaṁ,\n(jatukaṇṇīti bhagavā)\nNekkhammaṁ daṭṭhu khemato;\nUggahītaṁ nirattaṁ vā,\nMā te vijjittha kiñcanaṁ.","en":"“With desire for sensual pleasures dispelled,”\nreplied the Buddha,\n“seeing renunciation as sanctuary,\ndon’t be taking up or putting down\nanything at all."}},{"id":"snp5.12:4","sourceIds":["snp5.12:4.1","snp5.12:4.2","snp5.12:4.3","snp5.12:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yaṁ pubbe taṁ visosehi,\npacchā te māhu kiñcanaṁ;\nMajjhe ce no gahessasi,\nupasanto carissasi.","en":"What came before, let wither away,\nand after, let there be nothing.\nIf you don’t grasp at the middle,\nyou will live at peace."}},{"id":"snp5.12:5","sourceIds":["snp5.12:5.1","snp5.12:5.2","snp5.12:5.3","snp5.12:5.4","snp5.12:5.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sabbaso nāmarūpasmiṁ,\nVītagedhassa brāhmaṇa;\nĀsavāssa na vijjanti,\nYehi maccuvasaṁ vaje”ti.\nJatukaṇṇimāṇavapucchā ekādasamā.","en":"One rid of greed, brahmin,\nfor the whole realm of name and form,\nhas no defilements by which\nthey might fall under the sway of Death.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/snp5.12/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."}