{"id":"snp5.13","title":"The Questions of Bhadrāvudha","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"snp5.13","title":"The Questions of Bhadrāvudha","units":[{"id":"snp5.13:0","sourceIds":["snp5.13:0.1","snp5.13:0.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sutta Nipāta 5.13\nBhadrāvudhamāṇavapucchā","en":"Anthology of Discourses 5.13\nThe Questions of Bhadrāvudha"}},{"id":"snp5.13:1","sourceIds":["snp5.13:1.1","snp5.13:1.2","snp5.13:1.3","snp5.13:1.4","snp5.13:1.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Okañjahaṁ taṇhacchidaṁ anejaṁ,\n(iccāyasmā bhadrāvudho)\nNandiñjahaṁ oghatiṇṇaṁ vimuttaṁ;\nKappañjahaṁ abhiyāce sumedhaṁ,\nSutvāna nāgassa apanamissanti ito.","en":"“I beseech you, the bastion-leaver, the craving-cutter, the imperturbable,”\nsaid Venerable Bhadrāvudha,\n“the delight-leaver, the flood-crosser, the freed,\nthe formulation-leaver, the intelligent.\nDifferent people have gathered from across the nations"}},{"id":"snp5.13:2","sourceIds":["snp5.13:2.1","snp5.13:2.2","snp5.13:2.3","snp5.13:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Nānājanā janapadehi saṅgatā,\nTava vīra vākyaṁ abhikaṅkhamānā;\nTesaṁ tuvaṁ sādhu viyākarohi,\nTathā hi te vidito esa dhammo”.","en":"wishing to hear your word, O hero.\nAfter hearing the spiritual giant they will depart from here.\nPlease, sage, answer them clearly,\nfor truly you understand this matter.”"}},{"id":"snp5.13:3","sourceIds":["snp5.13:3.1","snp5.13:3.2","snp5.13:3.3","snp5.13:3.4","snp5.13:3.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Ādānataṇhaṁ vinayetha sabbaṁ,\n(bhadrāvudhāti bhagavā\nUddhaṁ adho tiriyañcāpi majjhe;\nYaṁ yañhi lokasmimupādiyanti,\nTeneva māro anveti jantuṁ.","en":"“Dispel all craving for attachments,”\nreplied the Buddha,\n“above, below, all round, between.\nFor whatever a personage grasps in the world,\nMāra pursues them right there."}},{"id":"snp5.13:4","sourceIds":["snp5.13:4.1","snp5.13:4.2","snp5.13:4.3","snp5.13:4.4","snp5.13:4.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tasmā pajānaṁ na upādiyetha,\nBhikkhu sato kiñcanaṁ sabbaloke;\nĀdānasatte iti pekkhamāno,\nPajaṁ imaṁ maccudheyye visattan”ti.\nBhadrāvudhamāṇavapucchā dvādasamā.","en":"So let a mindful mendicant who understands\nnot grasp anything in all the world,\nobserving that, in clinging to attachments,\nthese people cling to the domain of death.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/snp5.13/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."}