{"id":"thag6.9","title":"Jenta, the High Priest’s Son","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"thag6.9","title":"Jenta, the High Priest’s Son","units":[{"id":"thag6.9:0","sourceIds":["thag6.9:0.1","thag6.9:0.2","thag6.9:0.3","thag6.9:0.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Theragāthā 6.9\nChakkanipāta\nPaṭhamavagga\nPurohitaputtajentattheragāthā","en":"Verses of the Senior Monks 6.9\nThe Book of the Sixes\nChapter One\nJenta, the High Priest’s Son"}},{"id":"thag6.9:1","sourceIds":["thag6.9:1.1","thag6.9:1.2","thag6.9:1.3","thag6.9:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Jātimadena mattohaṁ,\nbhogaissariyena ca;\nSaṇṭhānavaṇṇarūpena,\nmadamatto acārihaṁ.","en":"I was drunk with the pride of birth\nand wealth and authority.\nI wandered about intoxicated\nwith my own gorgeous body."}},{"id":"thag6.9:2","sourceIds":["thag6.9:2.1","thag6.9:2.2","thag6.9:2.3","thag6.9:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Nāttano samakaṁ kañci,\natirekaṁ ca maññisaṁ;\nAtimānahato bālo,\npatthaddho ussitaddhajo.","en":"No one was my equal or my better—\nor so I thought.\nI was such an arrogant fool,\nstuck up, waving my own flag."}},{"id":"thag6.9:3","sourceIds":["thag6.9:3.1","thag6.9:3.2","thag6.9:3.3","thag6.9:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Mātaraṁ pitarañcāpi,\naññepi garusammate;\nNa kañci abhivādesiṁ,\nmānatthaddho anādaro.","en":"I never paid homage to anyone:\nnot even my mother or father,\nnor others esteemed as respectable.\nI was stiff with pride, lacking regard for others."}},{"id":"thag6.9:4","sourceIds":["thag6.9:4.1","thag6.9:4.2","thag6.9:4.3","thag6.9:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Disvā vināyakaṁ aggaṁ,\nsārathīnaṁ varuttamaṁ;\nTapantamiva ādiccaṁ,\nbhikkhusaṅghapurakkhataṁ.","en":"When I saw the foremost leader,\nthe most excellent of charioteers,\nshining like the sun\nat the fore of the mendicant Saṅgha,"}},{"id":"thag6.9:5","sourceIds":["thag6.9:5.1","thag6.9:5.2","thag6.9:5.3","thag6.9:5.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Mānaṁ madañca chaḍḍetvā,\nvippasannena cetasā;\nSirasā abhivādesiṁ,\nsabbasattānamuttamaṁ.","en":"I discarded conceit and vanity,\nand, with a clear and confident heart,\nI bowed down with my head\nto the supreme among all beings."}},{"id":"thag6.9:6","sourceIds":["thag6.9:6.1","thag6.9:6.2","thag6.9:6.3","thag6.9:6.4","thag6.9:6.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atimāno ca omāno,\npahīnā susamūhatā;\nAsmimāno samucchinno,\nsabbe mānavidhā hatā”ti.\n… Jento purohitaputto thero ….","en":"The conceit of superiority and the conceit of inferiority\nhave been given up and eradicated.\nThe conceit “I am” is cut off,\nand every kind of conceit is destroyed."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/thag6.9/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."}