{"id":"sn8.11","title":"At Gaggarā","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn8.11","title":"At Gaggarā","units":[{"id":"sn8.11:0","sourceIds":["sn8.11:0.1","sn8.11:0.2","sn8.11:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 8.11\n1. Vaṅgīsavagga\nGaggarāsutta","en":"Linked Discourses 8.11\n1. With Vaṅgīsa\nAt Gaggarā"}},{"id":"sn8.11:1","sourceIds":["sn8.11:1.1","sn8.11:1.2","sn8.11:1.3","sn8.11:1.4","sn8.11:1.5","sn8.11:1.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ekaṁ samayaṁ bhagavā campāyaṁ viharati gaggarāya pokkharaṇiyā tīre mahatā bhikkhusaṅghena saddhiṁ pañcamattehi bhikkhusatehi sattahi ca upāsakasatehi sattahi ca upāsikāsatehi anekehi ca devatāsahassehi.\nTyāssudaṁ bhagavā atirocati vaṇṇena ceva yasasā ca.\nAtha kho āyasmato vaṅgīsassa etadahosi:\n“ayaṁ kho bhagavā campāyaṁ viharati gaggarāya pokkharaṇiyā tīre mahatā bhikkhusaṅghena saddhiṁ pañcamattehi bhikkhusatehi sattahi ca upāsakasatehi sattahi ca upāsikāsatehi anekehi ca devatāsahassehi.\nTyāssudaṁ bhagavā atirocati vaṇṇena ceva yasasā ca.\nYannūnāhaṁ bhagavantaṁ sammukhā sāruppāya gāthāya abhitthaveyyan”ti.","en":"At one time the Buddha was staying near Campā on the banks of the Gaggarā Lotus Pond, together with a large Saṅgha of five hundred mendicants, seven hundred male and seven hundred female lay followers, and many thousands of deities.\nBut the Buddha outshone them all in beauty and glory.\nThen Venerable Vaṅgīsa thought,\n“The Buddha is staying near Campā on the banks of the Gaggarā Lotus Pond, together with a large Saṅgha of five hundred mendicants, seven hundred male and seven hundred female lay followers, and many thousands of deities.\nAnd he outshines them all in beauty and glory.\nWhy don’t I extoll him in his presence with fitting verses?”"}},{"id":"sn8.11:2","sourceIds":["sn8.11:2.1","sn8.11:2.2","sn8.11:2.3","sn8.11:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha kho āyasmā vaṅgīso uṭṭhāyāsanā ekaṁsaṁ uttarāsaṅgaṁ karitvā yena bhagavā tenañjaliṁ paṇāmetvā bhagavantaṁ etadavoca:\n“paṭibhāti maṁ, bhagavā, paṭibhāti maṁ, sugatā”ti.\n“Paṭibhātu taṁ, vaṅgīsā”ti bhagavā avoca.\nAtha kho āyasmā vaṅgīso bhagavantaṁ sammukhā sāruppāya gāthāya abhitthavi:","en":"Then Venerable Vaṅgīsa rose from his seat, arranged his robe over one shoulder, raised his cupped palms toward the Buddha, and said,\n“I feel inspired to speak, Blessed One! I feel inspired to speak, Holy One!”\n“Then speak as you feel inspired,” said the Buddha.\nThen Vaṅgīsa extolled the Buddha in his presence with fitting verses:"}},{"id":"sn8.11:3","sourceIds":["sn8.11:3.1","sn8.11:3.2","sn8.11:3.3","sn8.11:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Cando yathā vigatavalāhake nabhe,\nVirocati vigatamalova bhāṇumā;\nEvampi aṅgīrasa tvaṁ mahāmuni,\nAtirocasi yasasā sabbalokan”ti.","en":"“Like the moon on a cloudless night,\nlike the shining immaculate sun,\nso too Aṅgīrasa, O great sage,\nyour glory outshines the entire world.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn8.11/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."}