{"id":"an3.38","title":"The Four Great Kings (2nd)","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an3.38","title":"The Four Great Kings (2nd)","units":[{"id":"an3.38:0","sourceIds":["an3.38:0.1","an3.38:0.2","an3.38:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 3.38\n4. Devadūtavagga\nDutiyacatumahārājasutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 3.38\n4. Messengers of the Gods\nThe Four Great Kings (2nd)"}},{"id":"an3.38:1","sourceIds":["an3.38:1.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Bhūtapubbaṁ, bhikkhave, sakko devānamindo deve tāvatiṁse anunayamāno tāyaṁ velāyaṁ imaṁ gāthaṁ abhāsi:","en":"“Once upon a time, mendicants, Sakka, lord of gods, guiding the gods of the thirty-three, spoke this verse:"}},{"id":"an3.38:2","sourceIds":["an3.38:2.1","an3.38:2.2","an3.38:2.3","an3.38:2.4","an3.38:2.5","an3.38:2.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"‘Cātuddasiṁ pañcadasiṁ,\nyā ca pakkhassa aṭṭhamī;\nPāṭihāriyapakkhañca,\naṭṭhaṅgasusamāgataṁ;\nUposathaṁ upavaseyya,\nyopissa mādiso naro’ti.","en":"‘Whoever wants to be like me\nwould observe the sabbath\ncomplete in all eight factors,\non the fourteenth and the fifteenth days,\nand the eighth day of the fortnight,\nas well as on the fortnightly special displays.’"}},{"id":"an3.38:3","sourceIds":["an3.38:3.1","an3.38:3.2","an3.38:3.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sā kho panesā, bhikkhave, sakkena devānamindena gāthā duggītā na sugītā dubbhāsitā na subhāsitā.\nTaṁ kissa hetu?\nSakko hi, bhikkhave, devānamindo aparimutto jātiyā jarāya maraṇena sokehi paridevehi dukkhehi domanassehi upāyāsehi, ‘aparimutto dukkhasmā’ti vadāmi.","en":"But that verse was poorly sung by Sakka, lord of gods, not well sung; poorly spoken, not well spoken.\nWhy is that?\nBecause Sakka, lord of gods, is not exempt from rebirth, old age, and death, from sorrow, lamentation, pain, sadness, and distress. He is not exempt from suffering, I say."}},{"id":"an3.38:4","sourceIds":["an3.38:4.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yo ca kho so, bhikkhave, bhikkhu arahaṁ khīṇāsavo vusitavā katakaraṇīyo ohitabhāro anuppattasadattho parikkhīṇabhavasaṁyojano sammadaññāvimutto, tassa kho etaṁ, bhikkhave, bhikkhuno kallaṁ vacanāya:","en":"But for a mendicant who is perfected—with defilements ended, who has completed the spiritual journey, done what had to be done, laid down the burden, achieved their heart’s goal, utterly ended the fetter of continued existence, and is rightly freed through enlightenment—it is appropriate to say:"}},{"id":"an3.38:5","sourceIds":["an3.38:5.1","an3.38:5.2","an3.38:5.3","an3.38:5.4","an3.38:5.5","an3.38:5.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"‘Cātuddasiṁ pañcadasiṁ,\nyā ca pakkhassa aṭṭhamī;\nPāṭihāriyapakkhañca,\naṭṭhaṅgasusamāgataṁ;\nUposathaṁ upavaseyya,\nyopissa mādiso naro’ti.","en":"‘Whoever wants to be like me\nwould observe the sabbath,\ncomplete in all eight factors,\non the fourteenth and the fifteenth days,\nand the eighth day of the fortnight,\nas well as on the fortnightly special displays.’"}},{"id":"an3.38:6","sourceIds":["an3.38:6.1","an3.38:6.2","an3.38:6.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Taṁ kissa hetu?\nSo hi, bhikkhave, bhikkhu parimutto jātiyā jarāya maraṇena sokehi paridevehi dukkhehi domanassehi upāyāsehi, ‘parimutto dukkhasmā’ti vadāmī”ti.\nAṭṭhamaṁ.","en":"Why is that?\nBecause that mendicant is exempt from rebirth, old age, and death, from sorrow, lamentation, pain, sadness, and distress. He is exempt from suffering, I say.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an3.38/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."}