{"id":"snp5.4","title":"The Questions of Puṇṇaka","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"snp5.4","title":"The Questions of Puṇṇaka","units":[{"id":"snp5.4:0","sourceIds":["snp5.4:0.1","snp5.4:0.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sutta Nipāta 5.4\nPuṇṇakamāṇavapucchā","en":"Anthology of Discourses 5.4\nThe Questions of Puṇṇaka"}},{"id":"snp5.4:1","sourceIds":["snp5.4:1.1","snp5.4:1.2","snp5.4:1.3","snp5.4:1.4","snp5.4:1.5","snp5.4:1.6","snp5.4:1.7"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Anejaṁ mūladassāviṁ,\n(iccāyasmā puṇṇako)\nAtthi pañhena āgamaṁ;\nKiṁ nissitā isayo manujā,\nKhattiyā brāhmaṇā devatānaṁ;\nYaññamakappayiṁsu puthūdha loke,\nPucchāmi taṁ bhagavā brūhi me taṁ”.","en":"“To the imperturbable, the seer of the root,”\nsaid Venerable Puṇṇaka,\n“I have come seeking with a question.\nOn what grounds have seers and men,\naristocrats and brahmins here in the world\nperformed so many different sacrifices to the gods?\nI ask you, Blessed One; please tell me this.”"}},{"id":"snp5.4:2","sourceIds":["snp5.4:2.1","snp5.4:2.2","snp5.4:2.3","snp5.4:2.4","snp5.4:2.5","snp5.4:2.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Ye kecime isayo manujā,\n(puṇṇakāti bhagavā)\nKhattiyā brāhmaṇā devatānaṁ;\nYaññamakappayiṁsu puthūdha loke,\nĀsīsamānā puṇṇaka itthattaṁ;\nJaraṁ sitā yaññamakappayiṁsu”.","en":"“Whatever seers and men,”\nreplied the Buddha,\n“aristocrats and brahmins here in the world\nhave performed so many different sacrifices to the gods:\nall performed sacrifices bound to old age,\nlonging for this place.”"}},{"id":"snp5.4:3","sourceIds":["snp5.4:3.1","snp5.4:3.2","snp5.4:3.3","snp5.4:3.4","snp5.4:3.5","snp5.4:3.6","snp5.4:3.7"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Ye kecime isayo manujā,\n(iccāyasmā puṇṇako)\nKhattiyā brāhmaṇā devatānaṁ;\nYaññamakappayiṁsu puthūdha loke,\nKaccissu te bhagavā yaññapathe appamattā;\nAtāruṁ jātiñca jarañca mārisa,\nPucchāmi taṁ bhagavā brūhi me taṁ”.","en":"“As to those seers and men,”\nsaid Venerable Puṇṇaka,\n“and aristocrats and brahmins here in the world\nwho have performed so many different sacrifices to the gods:\nbeing diligent in the technique of sacrifice,\nhave they crossed over rebirth and old age, good fellow?\nI ask you, Blessed One; please tell me this.”"}},{"id":"snp5.4:4","sourceIds":["snp5.4:4.1","snp5.4:4.2","snp5.4:4.3","snp5.4:4.4","snp5.4:4.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Āsīsanti thomayanti abhijappanti juhanti,\n(puṇṇakāti bhagavā)\nKāmābhijappanti paṭicca lābhaṁ;\nTe yājayogā bhavarāgarattā,\nNātariṁsu jātijaranti brūmi”.","en":"“Hoping, invoking, praying, and worshiping,”\nreplied the Buddha,\n“they pray for pleasure derived from profit.\nDevoted to sacrifice, besotted by rebirth,\nthey’ve not crossed over rebirth and old age, I declare.”"}},{"id":"snp5.4:5","sourceIds":["snp5.4:5.1","snp5.4:5.2","snp5.4:5.3","snp5.4:5.4","snp5.4:5.5","snp5.4:5.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Te ce nātariṁsu yājayogā,\n(iccāyasmā puṇṇako)\nYaññehi jātiñca jarañca mārisa;\nAtha ko carahi devamanussaloke,\nAtāri jātiñca jarañca mārisa;\nPucchāmi taṁ bhagavā brūhi me taṁ”.","en":"“If those devoted to sacrifice,”\nsaid Venerable Puṇṇaka,\n“have not, by sacrificing, crossed over rebirth and old age,\nwho then in the world of gods and humans\nhas crossed over rebirth and old age, good fellow?\nI ask you, Blessed One; please tell me this.”"}},{"id":"snp5.4:6","sourceIds":["snp5.4:6.1","snp5.4:6.2","snp5.4:6.3","snp5.4:6.4","snp5.4:6.5","snp5.4:6.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Saṅkhāya lokasmi paroparāni,\n(puṇṇakāti bhagavā)\nYassiñjitaṁ natthi kuhiñci loke;\nSanto vidhūmo anīgho nirāso,\nAtāri so jātijaranti brūmī”ti.\nPuṇṇakamāṇavapucchā tatiyā.","en":"“Having appraised the world high and low,”\nreplied the Buddha,\n“there is nothing in the world that disturbs them.\nPeaceful, unclouded, untroubled, with no need for hope—\nthey’ve crossed over rebirth and old age, I declare.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/snp5.4/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."}