{"id":"thag3.5","title":"Mātaṅgaputta","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"thag3.5","title":"Mātaṅgaputta","units":[{"id":"thag3.5:0","sourceIds":["thag3.5:0.1","thag3.5:0.2","thag3.5:0.3","thag3.5:0.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Theragāthā 3.5\nTikanipāta\nPaṭhamavagga\nMātaṅgaputtattheragāthā","en":"Verses of the Senior Monks 3.5\nThe Book of the Threes\nChapter One\nMātaṅgaputta"}},{"id":"thag3.5:1","sourceIds":["thag3.5:1.1","thag3.5:1.2","thag3.5:1.3","thag3.5:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Atisītaṁ atiuṇhaṁ,\natisāyamidaṁ ahu;\nIti vissaṭṭhakammante,\nkhaṇā accenti māṇave.","en":"“It’s too cold, too hot,\ntoo late,” they say.\nWhen the young neglect their work like this,\nopportunities pass them by."}},{"id":"thag3.5:2","sourceIds":["thag3.5:2.1","thag3.5:2.2","thag3.5:2.3","thag3.5:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yo ca sītañca uṇhañca,\ntiṇā bhiyyo na maññati;\nKaraṁ purisakiccāni,\nso sukhā na vihāyati.","en":"But one who considers heat and cold\nas no more than blades of grass—\nhe does his duties as a man,\nand his happiness never fails."}},{"id":"thag3.5:3","sourceIds":["thag3.5:3.1","thag3.5:3.2","thag3.5:3.3","thag3.5:3.4","thag3.5:3.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Dabbaṁ kusaṁ poṭakilaṁ,\nusīraṁ muñjapabbajaṁ;\nUrasā panudissāmi,\nvivekamanubrūhayan”ti.\n… Mātaṅgaputto thero ….","en":"With my chest I’ll thrust aside\nthe grasses, vines, canes,\nthe vetiver, rushes and reeds,\nand foster seclusion."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/thag3.5/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."}