{"id":"sn4.13","title":"A Splinter","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn4.13","title":"A Splinter","units":[{"id":"sn4.13:0","sourceIds":["sn4.13:0.1","sn4.13:0.2","sn4.13:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 4.13\n2. Dutiyavagga\nSakalikasutta","en":"Linked Discourses 4.13\n2. Rule\nA Splinter"}},{"id":"sn4.13:1","sourceIds":["sn4.13:1.1","sn4.13:1.2","sn4.13:1.3","sn4.13:1.4","sn4.13:1.5","sn4.13:1.6","sn4.13:1.7"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Evaṁ me sutaṁ—\nekaṁ samayaṁ bhagavā rājagahe viharati maddakucchismiṁ migadāye.\nTena kho pana samayena bhagavato pādo sakalikāya khato hoti,\nbhusā sudaṁ bhagavato vedanā vattanti sārīrikā dukkhā tibbā kharā kaṭukā asātā amanāpā.\nTā sudaṁ bhagavā sato sampajāno adhivāseti avihaññamāno.\nAtha kho bhagavā catugguṇaṁ saṅghāṭiṁ paññapetvā dakkhiṇena passena sīhaseyyaṁ kappesi pāde pādaṁ accādhāya sato sampajāno.\nAtha kho māro pāpimā yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā bhagavantaṁ gāthāya ajjhabhāsi:","en":"So I have heard.\nAt one time the Buddha was staying near Rājagaha in the Maddakucchi deer park.\nNow at that time the Buddha’s foot had been cut by a wooden splinter.\nThe Buddha was stricken by harrowing pains; physical feelings that were painful, sharp, severe, acute, unpleasant, and disagreeable.\nBut he endured unbothered, with mindfulness and situational awareness.\nAnd then he spread out his outer robe folded in four and laid down in the lion’s posture—on the right side, placing one foot on top of the other—mindful and aware.\nThen Māra the Wicked went up to the Buddha and addressed him in verse:"}},{"id":"sn4.13:2","sourceIds":["sn4.13:2.1","sn4.13:2.2","sn4.13:2.3","sn4.13:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Mandiyā nu kho sesi udāhu kāveyyamatto,\nAtthā nu te sampacurā na santi;\nEko vivitte sayanāsanamhi,\nNiddāmukho kimidaṁ soppase vā”ti.","en":"“Are you feeble that you lie down? Or are you drunk on poetry?\nAre your goals not amply satisfied?\nAlone in a secluded lodging,\nwhy this sleeping, sleepyhead?”"}},{"id":"sn4.13:3","sourceIds":["sn4.13:3.1","sn4.13:3.2","sn4.13:3.3","sn4.13:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Na mandiyā sayāmi nāpi kāveyyamatto,\nAtthaṁ sameccāhamapetasoko;\nEko vivitte sayanāsanamhi,\nSayāmahaṁ sabbabhūtānukampī.","en":"“I’m not feeble that I lie down, nor am I drunk on poetry.\nHaving reached the goal, I’m rid of sorrow.\nAlone in a secluded lodging,\nI lie down full of sympathy for all living creatures."}},{"id":"sn4.13:4","sourceIds":["sn4.13:4.1","sn4.13:4.2","sn4.13:4.3","sn4.13:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yesampi sallaṁ urasi paviṭṭhaṁ,\nMuhuṁ muhuṁ hadayaṁ vedhamānaṁ;\nTepīdha soppaṁ labhare sasallā,\nTasmā ahaṁ na supe vītasallo.","en":"Even those with a dart stuck in the breast,\npiercing the heart moment by moment,\nare able to get some sleep.\nSo why not I, whose dart is drawn out?"}},{"id":"sn4.13:5","sourceIds":["sn4.13:5.1","sn4.13:5.2","sn4.13:5.3","sn4.13:5.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Jaggaṁ na saṅke napi bhemi sottuṁ,\nRattindivā nānutapanti māmaṁ;\nHāniṁ na passāmi kuhiñci loke,\nTasmā supe sabbabhūtānukampī”ti.","en":"I don’t lie awake tense, nor do I fear to sleep.\nThe days and nights don’t disturb me,\nas I see no decline for myself in the world.\nThat’s why I lie down full of sympathy for all living creatures.”"}},{"id":"sn4.13:6","sourceIds":["sn4.13:6.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha kho māro pāpimā “jānāti maṁ bhagavā, jānāti maṁ sugato”ti dukkhī dummano tatthevantaradhāyīti.","en":"Then Māra the Wicked, thinking, “The Buddha knows me! The Holy One knows me!” miserable and sad, vanished right there."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn4.13/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."}