{"id":"thag2.2","title":"Bhāradvāja the Alms-Gatherer","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"thag2.2","title":"Bhāradvāja the Alms-Gatherer","units":[{"id":"thag2.2:0","sourceIds":["thag2.2:0.1","thag2.2:0.2","thag2.2:0.3","thag2.2:0.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Theragāthā 2.2\nDukanipāta\nPaṭhamavagga\nPiṇḍolabhāradvājattheragāthā","en":"Verses of the Senior Monks 2.2\nThe Book of the Twos\nChapter One\nBhāradvāja the Alms-Gatherer"}},{"id":"thag2.2:1","sourceIds":["thag2.2:1.1","thag2.2:1.2","thag2.2:1.3","thag2.2:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Nayidaṁ anayena jīvitaṁ,\nNāhāro hadayassa santiko;\nĀhāraṭṭhitiko samussayo,\nIti disvāna carāmi esanaṁ.","en":"You can’t live by fasting,\nbut food doesn’t lead to peace of heart.\nSeeing how this bag of bones is sustained by food,\nI wander, seeking."}},{"id":"thag2.2:2","sourceIds":["thag2.2:2.1","thag2.2:2.2","thag2.2:2.3","thag2.2:2.4","thag2.2:2.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Paṅkoti hi naṁ pavedayuṁ,\nYāyaṁ vandanapūjanā kulesu;\nSukhumaṁ sallaṁ durubbahaṁ,\nSakkāro kāpurisena dujjaho”ti.\nItthaṁ sudaṁ āyasmā piṇḍolabhāradvājo thero gāthāyo abhāsitthāti.","en":"They know it’s just a swamp,\nthis homage and veneration in respectable families.\nHonor is a subtle dart, hard to extract,\nand hard for a reprobate to give up.\nThat is how these verses were recited by the senior venerable Bhāradvāja the Alms-Gatherer."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/thag2.2/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."}