{"id":"sn1.60","title":"A Poet","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn1.60","title":"A Poet","units":[{"id":"sn1.60:0","sourceIds":["sn1.60:0.1","sn1.60:0.2","sn1.60:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 1.60\n6. Jarāvagga\nKavisutta","en":"Linked Discourses 1.60\n6. Old Age\nA Poet"}},{"id":"sn1.60:1","sourceIds":["sn1.60:1.1","sn1.60:1.2","sn1.60:1.3","sn1.60:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Kiṁsu nidānaṁ gāthānaṁ,\nkiṁsu tāsaṁ viyañjanaṁ;\nKiṁsu sannissitā gāthā,\nkiṁsu gāthānamāsayo”ti.","en":"“What’s the source of verses?\nWhat constitutes their phrasing?\nWhat do verses depend upon?\nWhat underlies verses?”"}},{"id":"sn1.60:2","sourceIds":["sn1.60:2.1","sn1.60:2.2","sn1.60:2.3","sn1.60:2.4","sn1.60:2.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Chando nidānaṁ gāthānaṁ,\nakkharā tāsaṁ viyañjanaṁ;\nNāmasannissitā gāthā,\nkavi gāthānamāsayo”ti.\nJarāvaggo chaṭṭho.","en":"“Metre is the source of verses.\nSyllables constitute their phrasing.\nVerses depend on names.\nA poet underlies verses.”"}},{"id":"sn1.60:3","sourceIds":["sn1.60:3.0","sn1.60:3.1","sn1.60:3.2","sn1.60:3.3","sn1.60:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tassuddānaṁ\nJarā ajarasā mittaṁ,\nvatthu tīṇi janāni ca;\nUppatho ca dutiyo ca,\nkavinā pūrito vaggoti."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn1.60/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."}