{"id":"iti24","title":"A Heap of Bones","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"iti24","title":"A Heap of Bones","units":[{"id":"iti24:0","sourceIds":["iti24:0.1","iti24:0.2","iti24:0.3","iti24:0.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Itivuttaka 24\nEkakanipāta\nTatiyavagga\nAṭṭhipuñjasutta","en":"So It Was Said 24\nThe Book of the Ones\nChapter Three\nA Heap of Bones"}},{"id":"iti24:1","sourceIds":["iti24:1.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Vuttañhetaṁ bhagavatā vuttamarahatāti me sutaṁ:","en":"This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard."}},{"id":"iti24:2","sourceIds":["iti24:2.1","iti24:2.2","iti24:2.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Ekapuggalassa, bhikkhave, kappaṁ sandhāvato saṁsarato siyā evaṁ mahā aṭṭhikaṅkalo aṭṭhipuñjo aṭṭhirāsi yathāyaṁ vepullo pabbato, sace saṁhārako assa, sambhatañca na vinasseyyā”ti.\nEtamatthaṁ bhagavā avoca.\nTatthetaṁ iti vuccati:","en":"“Mendicants, one individual roaming and transmigrating for an eon would amass a heap of bones the size of this Mount Vepulla, if they were gathered together and not lost.”\nThe Buddha spoke this matter.\nOn this it is said:"}},{"id":"iti24:3","sourceIds":["iti24:3.1","iti24:3.2","iti24:3.3","iti24:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Ekassekena kappena,\npuggalassaṭṭhisañcayo;\nSiyā pabbatasamo rāsi,\niti vuttaṁ mahesinā.","en":"“If the bones of a single individual\nfor a single eon were gathered up,\nthey’d make a pile the size of a mountain:\nso said the great seer."}},{"id":"iti24:4","sourceIds":["iti24:4.1","iti24:4.2","iti24:4.3","iti24:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"So kho panāyaṁ akkhāto,\nvepullo pabbato mahā;\nUttaro gijjhakūṭassa,\nmagadhānaṁ giribbaje.","en":"And this is declared to be\nas big as Mount Vepulla,\nhigher than the Vulture’s Peak\nin the Mountainfold of the Magadhans."}},{"id":"iti24:5","sourceIds":["iti24:5.1","iti24:5.2","iti24:5.3","iti24:5.4","iti24:5.5","iti24:5.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yato ca ariyasaccāni,\nsammappaññāya passati;\nDukkhaṁ dukkhasamuppādaṁ,\ndukkhassa ca atikkamaṁ;\nAriyañcaṭṭhaṅgikaṁ maggaṁ,\ndukkhūpasamagāminaṁ.","en":"But then, with right understanding,\none sees the noble truths—\nsuffering, suffering’s origin,\nsuffering’s transcendence,\nand the noble eightfold path\nthat leads to the stilling of suffering."}},{"id":"iti24:6","sourceIds":["iti24:6.1","iti24:6.2","iti24:6.3","iti24:6.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sa sattakkhattuṁ paramaṁ,\nsandhāvitvāna puggalo;\nDukkhassantakaro hoti,\nsabbasaṁyojanakkhayā”ti.","en":"After roaming on seven times at most,\nthat individual\nmakes an end of suffering,\nwith the ending of all fetters.”"}},{"id":"iti24:7","sourceIds":["iti24:7.1","iti24:7.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ayampi attho vutto bhagavatā, iti me sutanti.\nCatutthaṁ.","en":"This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/iti24/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."}