{"id":"ud6.8","title":"The Courtesan","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"ud6.8","title":"The Courtesan","units":[{"id":"ud6.8:0","sourceIds":["ud6.8:0.1","ud6.8:0.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Udāna 6.8\nGaṇikāsutta","en":"Heartfelt Sayings 6.8\nThe Courtesan"}},{"id":"ud6.8:1","sourceIds":["ud6.8:1.1","ud6.8:1.2","ud6.8:1.3","ud6.8:1.4","ud6.8:1.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Evaṁ me sutaṁ—\nekaṁ samayaṁ bhagavā rājagahe viharati veḷuvane kalandakanivāpe.\nTena kho pana samayena rājagahe dve pūgā aññatarissā gaṇikāya sārattā honti paṭibaddhacittā;\nbhaṇḍanajātā kalahajātā vivādāpannā aññamaññaṁ pāṇīhipi upakkamanti, leḍḍūhipi upakkamanti, daṇḍehipi upakkamanti, satthehipi upakkamanti.\nTe tattha maraṇampi nigacchanti maraṇamattampi dukkhaṁ.","en":"So I have heard.\nAt one time the Buddha was staying near Rājagaha in the Bamboo Grove, the squirrels’ feeding ground.\nNow at that time two gangs were both hopelessly in love with a certain courtesan.\nFighting, quarreling, and disputing, they attacked each other with fists, stones, rods, and swords,\nresulting in death and deadly pain."}},{"id":"ud6.8:2","sourceIds":["ud6.8:2.1","ud6.8:2.2","ud6.8:2.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha kho sambahulā bhikkhū pubbaṇhasamayaṁ nivāsetvā pattacīvaramādāya rājagahaṁ piṇḍāya pāvisiṁsu.\nRājagahe piṇḍāya caritvā pacchābhattaṁ piṇḍapātapaṭikkantā yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkamiṁsu; upasaṅkamitvā bhagavantaṁ abhivādetvā ekamantaṁ nisīdiṁsu.\nEkamantaṁ nisinnā kho te bhikkhū bhagavantaṁ etadavocuṁ:","en":"Then several mendicants robed up in the morning and, taking their bowls and robes, entered Rājagaha for alms.\nThen, after the meal, when they returned from almsround, they went up to the Buddha, bowed, sat down to one side, and told him what was happening."}},{"id":"ud6.8:3","sourceIds":["ud6.8:3.1","ud6.8:3.2","ud6.8:3.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Idha, bhante, rājagahe dve pūgā aññatarissā gaṇikāya sārattā paṭibaddhacittā;\nbhaṇḍanajātā kalahajātā vivādāpannā aññamaññaṁ pāṇīhipi upakkamanti, leḍḍūhipi upakkamanti, daṇḍehipi upakkamanti, satthehipi upakkamanti.\nTe tattha maraṇampi nigacchanti maraṇamattampi dukkhan”ti."}},{"id":"ud6.8:4","sourceIds":["ud6.8:4.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha kho bhagavā etamatthaṁ viditvā tāyaṁ velāyaṁ imaṁ udānaṁ udānesi:","en":"Then, understanding this matter, on that occasion the Buddha expressed this heartfelt sentiment:"}},{"id":"ud6.8:5","sourceIds":["ud6.8:5.1","ud6.8:5.2","ud6.8:5.3","ud6.8:5.4","ud6.8:5.5","ud6.8:5.6","ud6.8:5.7","ud6.8:5.8"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Yañca pattaṁ yañca pattabbaṁ, ubhayametaṁ rajānukiṇṇaṁ, āturassānusikkhato.\nYe ca sikkhāsārā sīlabbataṁ jīvitaṁ brahmacariyaṁ upaṭṭhānasārā, ayameko anto.\nYe ca evaṁvādino:\n‘natthi kāmesu doso’ti, ayaṁ dutiyo anto.\nIccete ubho antā kaṭasivaḍḍhanā, kaṭasiyo diṭṭhiṁ vaḍḍhenti.\nEtete ubho ante anabhiññāya olīyanti eke, atidhāvanti eke.\nYe ca kho te abhiññāya tatra ca nāhesuṁ, tena ca nāmaññiṁsu, vaṭṭaṁ tesaṁ natthi paññāpanāyā”ti.\nAṭṭhamaṁ.","en":"“What has been attained and what is to be attained are both strewn over with dust for that one training while still sick.\nThose for whom the training is the essence, or precepts and observances, chastity, and service as the essence: this is one extreme.\nThose who say,\n‘There’s nothing wrong with sensual pleasures’: this is the second extreme.\nThus these two extremes swell the charnel grounds, while the charnel grounds swell wrong view.\nNot realizing these two extremes, some get stuck and some overreach.\nFor those who realize these things, who were not found there, who did not conceive by that, there is no cycle of rebirths to be found.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/ud6.8/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."}