{"id":"thag2.37","title":"Soṇapoṭiriya","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"thag2.37","title":"Soṇapoṭiriya","units":[{"id":"thag2.37:0","sourceIds":["thag2.37:0.1","thag2.37:0.2","thag2.37:0.3","thag2.37:0.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Theragāthā 2.37\nDukanipāta\nCatutthavagga\nSoṇapoṭiriyattheragāthā","en":"Verses of the Senior Monks 2.37\nThe Book of the Twos\nChapter Four\nSoṇapoṭiriya"}},{"id":"thag2.37:1","sourceIds":["thag2.37:1.1","thag2.37:1.2","thag2.37:1.3","thag2.37:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Na tāva supituṁ hoti,\nratti nakkhattamālinī;\nPaṭijaggitumevesā,\nratti hoti vijānatā”.","en":"Night, with her garland of stars,\nis not only for sleeping.\nFor those who know,\nthis night is really for waking."}},{"id":"thag2.37:2","sourceIds":["thag2.37:2.1","thag2.37:2.2","thag2.37:2.3","thag2.37:2.4","thag2.37:2.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Hatthikkhandhāvapatitaṁ,\nkuñjaro ce anukkame;\nSaṅgāme me mataṁ seyyo,\nyañce jīve parājito”ti.\n… Soṇo poṭiriyo thero ….","en":"Were I to fall from the back of an elephant,\ntrampled by the tuskers that follow,\nbetter for me to die in battle,\nthan to live on in defeat."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/thag2.37/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."}