{"id":"sn19.12","title":"A Dung Eater","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn19.12","title":"A Dung Eater","units":[{"id":"sn19.12:0","sourceIds":["sn19.12:0.1","sn19.12:0.2","sn19.12:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 19.12\n2. Dutiyavagga\nGūthakhādasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 19.12\nChapter Two\nA Dung Eater"}},{"id":"sn19.12:1","sourceIds":["sn19.12:1.1","sn19.12:1.2","sn19.12:1.3","sn19.12:1.4","sn19.12:1.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Idhāhaṁ, āvuso, gijjhakūṭā pabbatā orohanto addasaṁ purisaṁ gūthakūpe nimuggaṁ ubhohi hatthehi gūthaṁ khādantaṁ …pe…\neso, bhikkhave, satto imasmiṁyeva rājagahe duṭṭhabrāhmaṇo ahosi.\nSo kassapassa sammāsambuddhassa pāvacane bhikkhusaṅghaṁ bhattena nimantetvā doṇiyo gūthassa pūrāpetvā etadavoca—\naho bhonto yāvadatthaṁ bhuñjantu ceva harantu cā’ti …pe….\nDutiyaṁ.","en":"“Just now, reverend, as I was descending from Vulture’s Peak Mountain I saw a man sunk in a sewer, eating dung with both hands. …” …\n“That being used to be a nasty brahmin right here in Rājagaha.\nIn the time of the Buddha Kassapa’s dispensation he invited the Saṅgha of mendicants for a meal. He filled a trough with dung and said:\n‘My good men, eat as much as you like, and take what’s left.’ …”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn19.12/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."}