{"id":"sn29.11-20","title":"Ten Discourses On How Giving Helps to Become Egg-Born","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn29.11-20","title":"Ten Discourses On How Giving Helps to Become Egg-Born","units":[{"id":"sn29.11-20:0","sourceIds":["sn29.11-20:0.1","sn29.11-20:0.2","sn29.11-20:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 29.11–20\n1. Nāgavagga\nAṇḍajadānūpakārasuttadasaka","en":"Linked Discourses 29.11–20\n1. Dragons\nTen Discourses On How Giving Helps to Become Egg-Born"}},{"id":"sn29.11-20:1","sourceIds":["sn29.11-20:1.1","sn29.11-20:1.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ekamantaṁ nisinno kho so bhikkhu bhagavantaṁ etadavoca:\n“ko nu kho, bhante, hetu, ko paccayo, yena midhekacco kāyassa bhedā paraṁ maraṇā aṇḍajānaṁ nāgānaṁ sahabyataṁ upapajjatī”ti?","en":"Seated to one side, that mendicant said to the Buddha:\n“Sir, what is the cause, what is the reason why someone, when their body breaks up, after death, is reborn in the company of the egg-born dragons?”"}},{"id":"sn29.11-20:2","sourceIds":["sn29.11-20:2.1","sn29.11-20:2.2","sn29.11-20:2.3","sn29.11-20:2.4","sn29.11-20:2.5","sn29.11-20:2.6","sn29.11-20:2.7","sn29.11-20:2.8","sn29.11-20:2.9","sn29.11-20:2.10","sn29.11-20:2.11","sn29.11-20:2.12","sn29.11-20:2.13","sn29.11-20:2.14","sn29.11-20:2.15","sn29.11-20:2.16","sn29.11-20:2.17","sn29.11-20:2.18","sn29.11-20:2.19","sn29.11-20:2.20"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Idha, bhikkhu, ekacco kāyena dvayakārī hoti, vācāya dvayakārī, manasā dvayakārī.\nTassa sutaṁ hoti:\n‘aṇḍajā nāgā dīghāyukā vaṇṇavanto sukhabahulā’ti.\nTassa evaṁ hoti:\n‘aho vatāhaṁ kāyassa bhedā paraṁ maraṇā aṇḍajānaṁ nāgānaṁ sahabyataṁ upapajjeyyan’ti.\nSo annaṁ deti.\nSo kāyassa bhedā paraṁ maraṇā aṇḍajānaṁ nāgānaṁ sahabyataṁ upapajjati.\nAyaṁ kho, bhikkhu, hetu …pe… upapajjatīti …pe…\nso pānaṁ deti …pe…\nvatthaṁ deti …pe…\nyānaṁ deti …pe…\nmālaṁ deti …pe…\ngandhaṁ deti …pe…\nvilepanaṁ deti …pe…\nseyyaṁ deti …pe…\nāvasathaṁ deti …pe…\npadīpeyyaṁ deti.\nSo kāyassa bhedā paraṁ maraṇā aṇḍajānaṁ nāgānaṁ sahabyataṁ upapajjati.\nAyaṁ kho, bhikkhu, hetu, ayaṁ paccayo, yena midhekacco kāyassa bhedā paraṁ maraṇā aṇḍajānaṁ nāgānaṁ sahabyataṁ upapajjatī”ti.\nVīsatimaṁ.","en":"“Mendicant, it’s when someone does both kinds of deeds by body, speech, and mind.\nAnd they’ve heard:\n‘The egg-born dragons are long-lived, beautiful, and very happy.’\nThey think:\n‘If only, when my body breaks up, after death, I would be reborn in the company of the egg-born dragons!’\nThey give food …\ndrink …\nclothing …\na vehicle …\na garland …\nfragrance …\nmakeup …\na bed …\na house …\na lamp.\nWhen their body breaks up, after death, they’re reborn in the company of the egg-born dragons.\nThis is the cause, this is the reason why someone, when their body breaks up, after death, is reborn in the company of the egg-born dragons.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn29.11-20/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."}