{"id":"thag10.5","title":"Kappa","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"thag10.5","title":"Kappa","units":[{"id":"thag10.5:0","sourceIds":["thag10.5:0.1","thag10.5:0.2","thag10.5:0.3","thag10.5:0.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Theragāthā 10.5\nDasakanipāta\nPaṭhamavagga\nKappattheragāthā","en":"Verses of the Senior Monks 10.5\nThe Book of the Tens\nChapter One\nKappa"}},{"id":"thag10.5:1","sourceIds":["thag10.5:1.1","thag10.5:1.2","thag10.5:1.3","thag10.5:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Nānākulamalasampuṇṇo,\nmahāukkārasambhavo;\nCandanikaṁva paripakkaṁ,\nmahāgaṇḍo mahāvaṇo.","en":"Filled with different kinds of dirt,\na great producer of dung,\nlike a stagnant cesspool,\na big boil, a bad wound,"}},{"id":"thag10.5:2","sourceIds":["thag10.5:2.1","thag10.5:2.2","thag10.5:2.3","thag10.5:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Pubbaruhirasampuṇṇo,\ngūthakūpena gāḷhito;\nĀpopaggharaṇo kāyo,\nsadā sandati pūtikaṁ.","en":"full of pus and blood,\nsunk in a toilet-pit,\ntrickling with fluids,\nthis rotting body always oozes."}},{"id":"thag10.5:3","sourceIds":["thag10.5:3.1","thag10.5:3.2","thag10.5:3.3","thag10.5:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṭṭhikaṇḍarasambandho,\nmaṁsalepanalepito;\nCammakañcukasannaddho,\npūtikāyo niratthako.","en":"Bound by sixty tendons,\ncoated with a fleshy coating,\nclothed in a jacket of skin,\nthis rotting body is worthless."}},{"id":"thag10.5:4","sourceIds":["thag10.5:4.1","thag10.5:4.2","thag10.5:4.3","thag10.5:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṭṭhisaṅghātaghaṭito,\nnhārusuttanibandhano;\nNekesaṁ saṅgatībhāvā,\nkappeti iriyāpathaṁ.","en":"Held together by a skeleton of bones,\nand bound by sinews;\nit assumes postures\ndue to a complex of many things."}},{"id":"thag10.5:5","sourceIds":["thag10.5:5.1","thag10.5:5.2","thag10.5:5.3","thag10.5:5.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Dhuvappayāto maraṇāya,\nmaccurājassa santike;\nIdheva chaḍḍayitvāna,\nyenakāmaṅgamo naro.","en":"We set out in the certainty of death,\nin the presence of the King of Death;\nand having discarded the body right here,\na person goes where he likes."}},{"id":"thag10.5:6","sourceIds":["thag10.5:6.1","thag10.5:6.2","thag10.5:6.3","thag10.5:6.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Avijjāya nivuto kāyo,\ncatuganthena ganthito;\nOghasaṁsīdano kāyo,\nanusayajālamotthato.","en":"Shrouded by ignorance,\ntied by the four ties,\nthis body is sinking in the flood,\ncaught in the net of the underlying tendencies."}},{"id":"thag10.5:7","sourceIds":["thag10.5:7.1","thag10.5:7.2","thag10.5:7.3","thag10.5:7.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Pañcanīvaraṇe yutto,\nvitakkena samappito;\nTaṇhāmūlenānugato,\nmohacchādanachādito.","en":"Yoked to the five hindrances,\nafflicted by thought,\nstuck to the root of craving,\nhidden by delusion:"}},{"id":"thag10.5:8","sourceIds":["thag10.5:8.1","thag10.5:8.2","thag10.5:8.3","thag10.5:8.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Evāyaṁ vattate kāyo,\nkammayantena yantito;\nSampatti ca vipatyantā,\nnānābhāvo vipajjati.","en":"that is how the body goes on,\npropelled by the mechanism of deeds.\nBut existence ends in perishing;\nseparated, the body perishes."}},{"id":"thag10.5:9","sourceIds":["thag10.5:9.1","thag10.5:9.2","thag10.5:9.3","thag10.5:9.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yemaṁ kāyaṁ mamāyanti,\nandhabālā puthujjanā;\nVaḍḍhenti kaṭasiṁ ghoraṁ,\nādiyanti punabbhavaṁ.","en":"Those blind, ordinary people\nwho think of this body as theirs,\nswell the horrors of the charnel ground,\ntaking hold of future lives."}},{"id":"thag10.5:10","sourceIds":["thag10.5:10.1","thag10.5:10.2","thag10.5:10.3","thag10.5:10.4","thag10.5:10.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yemaṁ kāyaṁ vivajjenti,\nGūthalittaṁva pannagaṁ;\nBhavamūlaṁ vamitvāna,\nParinibbissantināsavā”ti.\n… Kappo thero ….","en":"The undefiled who shun this body\nlike a serpent smeared with dung,\nhaving expelled the root of rebirth,\nwill be fully quenched."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/thag10.5/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."}