{"id":"thag1.77","title":"Hatthārohaputta","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"thag1.77","title":"Hatthārohaputta","units":[{"id":"thag1.77:0","sourceIds":["thag1.77:0.1","thag1.77:0.2","thag1.77:0.3","thag1.77:0.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Theragāthā 1.77\nEkakanipāta\nAṭṭhamavagga\nHatthārohaputtattheragāthā","en":"Verses of the Senior Monks 1.77\nThe Book of the Ones\nChapter Eight\nHatthārohaputta"}},{"id":"thag1.77:1","sourceIds":["thag1.77:1.1","thag1.77:1.2","thag1.77:1.3","thag1.77:1.4","thag1.77:1.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Idaṁ pure cittamacāri cārikaṁ,\nYenicchakaṁ yatthakāmaṁ yathāsukhaṁ;\nTadajjahaṁ niggahessāmi yoniso,\nHatthippabhinnaṁ viya aṅkusaggaho”ti.\n… Hatthārohaputto thero ….","en":"In the past my mind wandered\nhow it wished, where it liked, as it pleased.\nNow I’ll carefully guide it,\nas a trainer with a hook guides a rutting elephant."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/thag1.77/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."}