{"id":"an3.51","title":"Two Brahmins (1st)","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an3.51","title":"Two Brahmins (1st)","units":[{"id":"an3.51:0","sourceIds":["an3.51:0.1","an3.51:0.2","an3.51:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 3.51\n6. Brāhmaṇavagga\nPaṭhamadvebrāhmaṇasutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 3.51\n6. Brahmins\nTwo Brahmins (1st)"}},{"id":"an3.51:1","sourceIds":["an3.51:1.1","an3.51:1.2","an3.51:1.3","an3.51:1.4","an3.51:1.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha kho dve brāhmaṇā jiṇṇā vuddhā mahallakā addhagatā vayoanuppattā vīsavassasatikā jātiyā yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkamiṁsu; upasaṅkamitvā bhagavatā saddhiṁ sammodiṁsu.\nSammodanīyaṁ kathaṁ sāraṇīyaṁ vītisāretvā ekamantaṁ nisīdiṁsu. Ekamantaṁ nisinnā kho te brāhmaṇā bhagavantaṁ etadavocuṁ:\n“mayamassu, bho gotama, brāhmaṇā jiṇṇā vuddhā mahallakā addhagatā vayoanuppattā vīsavassasatikā jātiyā;\nte camhā akatakalyāṇā akatakusalā akatabhīruttāṇā.\nOvadatu no bhavaṁ gotamo, anusāsatu no bhavaṁ gotamo yaṁ amhākaṁ assa dīgharattaṁ hitāya sukhāyā”ti.","en":"Then two old brahmins—elderly and senior, who were advanced in years and had reached the final stage of life, a hundred and twenty years old—went up to the Buddha, and exchanged greetings with him.\nWhen the greetings and polite conversation were over, they sat down to one side, and said to the Buddha:\n“We brahmins, worthy Gotama, are old, elderly and senior, we’re advanced in years and have reached the final stage of life; we’re a hundred and twenty years old.\nAnd we haven’t done what is good and skillful, nor have we made a shelter from fear.\nAdvise us, worthy Gotama, instruct us! It will be for our lasting welfare and happiness.”"}},{"id":"an3.51:2","sourceIds":["an3.51:2.1","an3.51:2.2","an3.51:2.3","an3.51:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Taggha tumhe, brāhmaṇā, jiṇṇā vuddhā mahallakā addhagatā vayoanuppattā vīsavassasatikā jātiyā;\nte cattha akatakalyāṇā akatakusalā akatabhīruttāṇā.\nUpanīyati kho ayaṁ, brāhmaṇā, loko jarāya byādhinā maraṇena.\nEvaṁ upanīyamāne kho, brāhmaṇā, loke jarāya byādhinā maraṇena, yo idha kāyena saṁyamo vācāya saṁyamo manasā saṁyamo, taṁ tassa petassa tāṇañca leṇañca dīpañca saraṇañca parāyaṇañcāti.","en":"“Indeed, brahmins, you’re old, elderly and senior.\nAnd you haven’t done what is good and skillful, nor have you made a shelter from fear.\nThis world is led onward by old age, sickness, and death.\nBut restraint here by way of body, speech, and mind is the shelter, asylum, island, refuge, and final haven for the departed."}},{"id":"an3.51:3","sourceIds":["an3.51:3.1","an3.51:3.2","an3.51:3.3","an3.51:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Upanīyati jīvitamappamāyu,\nJarūpanītassa na santi tāṇā;\nEtaṁ bhayaṁ maraṇe pekkhamāno,\nPuññāni kayirātha sukhāvahāni.","en":"This life, so very short, is led onward.\nOne led on to old age has no shelter.\nSeeing this peril in death,\ndo good deeds that bring you joy."}},{"id":"an3.51:4","sourceIds":["an3.51:4.1","an3.51:4.2","an3.51:4.3","an3.51:4.4","an3.51:4.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yodha kāyena saṁyamo,\nVācāya uda cetasā;\nTaṁ tassa petassa sukhāya hoti,\nYaṁ jīvamāno pakaroti puññan”ti.\nPaṭhamaṁ.","en":"The restraint practiced here—\nof body, speech, and mind—\nleads the departed to happiness,\nas the good deeds done while living.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an3.51/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."}