{"id":"thag6.4","title":"Kulla","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"thag6.4","title":"Kulla","units":[{"id":"thag6.4:0","sourceIds":["thag6.4:0.1","thag6.4:0.2","thag6.4:0.3","thag6.4:0.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Theragāthā 6.4\nChakkanipāta\nPaṭhamavagga\nKullattheragāthā","en":"Verses of the Senior Monks 6.4\nThe Book of the Sixes\nChapter One\nKulla"}},{"id":"thag6.4:1","sourceIds":["thag6.4:1.1","thag6.4:1.2","thag6.4:1.3","thag6.4:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Kullo sivathikaṁ gantvā,\naddasa itthimujjhitaṁ;\nApaviddhaṁ susānasmiṁ,\nkhajjantiṁ kimihī phuṭaṁ.","en":"I, Kulla, went to a charnel ground\nand saw a woman’s body abandoned there,\ndumped in a cemetery,\nfull of worms that devoured."}},{"id":"thag6.4:2","sourceIds":["thag6.4:2.1","thag6.4:2.2","thag6.4:2.3","thag6.4:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Āturaṁ asuciṁ pūtiṁ,\npassa kulla samussayaṁ;\nUggharantaṁ paggharantaṁ,\nbālānaṁ abhinanditaṁ.","en":"“See this bag of bones, Kulla—\ndiseased, filthy, rotten,\noozing and trickling,\na fool’s delight.”"}},{"id":"thag6.4:3","sourceIds":["thag6.4:3.1","thag6.4:3.2","thag6.4:3.3","thag6.4:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Dhammādāsaṁ gahetvāna,\nñāṇadassanapattiyā;\nPaccavekkhiṁ imaṁ kāyaṁ,\ntucchaṁ santarabāhiraṁ.","en":"Taking the teaching as a mirror\nfor realizing knowledge and vision,\nI examined this body,\nhollow, inside and out."}},{"id":"thag6.4:4","sourceIds":["thag6.4:4.1","thag6.4:4.2","thag6.4:4.3","thag6.4:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yathā idaṁ tathā etaṁ,\nyathā etaṁ tathā idaṁ;\nYathā adho tathā uddhaṁ,\nyathā uddhaṁ tathā adho.","en":"As this is, so is that;\nas that is, so is this.\nAs below, so above;\nas above, so below."}},{"id":"thag6.4:5","sourceIds":["thag6.4:5.1","thag6.4:5.2","thag6.4:5.3","thag6.4:5.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yathā divā tathā rattiṁ,\nyathā rattiṁ tathā divā;\nYathā pure tathā pacchā,\nyathā pacchā tathā pure.","en":"As by day, so by night;\nas by night, so by day.\nAs before, so behind;\nas behind, so before."}},{"id":"thag6.4:6","sourceIds":["thag6.4:6.1","thag6.4:6.2","thag6.4:6.3","thag6.4:6.4","thag6.4:6.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Pañcaṅgikena turiyena,\nNa ratī hoti tādisī;\nYathā ekaggacittassa,\nSammā dhammaṁ vipassato”ti.\n… Kullo thero ….","en":"Even the music of a five-piece band\ncan never give such pleasure\nas when, with unified mind,\nyou rightly discern the Dhamma."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/thag6.4/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."}