{"id":"snp2.2","title":"Putrefaction","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"snp2.2","title":"Putrefaction","units":[{"id":"snp2.2:0","sourceIds":["snp2.2:0.1","snp2.2:0.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sutta Nipāta 2.2\nĀmagandhasutta","en":"Anthology of Discourses 2.2\nPutrefaction"}},{"id":"snp2.2:1","sourceIds":["snp2.2:1.1","snp2.2:1.2","snp2.2:1.3","snp2.2:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Sāmākaciṅgūlakacīnakāni ca,\nPattapphalaṁ mūlaphalaṁ gavipphalaṁ;\nDhammena laddhaṁ satamasnamānā,\nNa kāmakāmā alikaṁ bhaṇanti.","en":"“The good eat properly obtained\nmillet, wild grains, broomcorn,\ngreens, tubers, and grapes.\nThey don’t lie to get what they want."}},{"id":"snp2.2:2","sourceIds":["snp2.2:2.1","snp2.2:2.2","snp2.2:2.3","snp2.2:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yadasnamāno sukataṁ suniṭṭhitaṁ,\nParehi dinnaṁ payataṁ paṇītaṁ;\nSālīnamannaṁ paribhuñjamāno,\nSo bhuñjasī kassapa āmagandhaṁ.","en":"But when you eat delicious food,\nnicely cooked and prepared, and offered by others,\nenjoying a dish of fine rice,\nKassapa, you eat putrefaction."}},{"id":"snp2.2:3","sourceIds":["snp2.2:3.1","snp2.2:3.2","snp2.2:3.3","snp2.2:3.4","snp2.2:3.5","snp2.2:3.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Na āmagandho mama kappatīti,\nIcceva tvaṁ bhāsasi brahmabandhu;\nSālīnamannaṁ paribhuñjamāno,\nSakuntamaṁsehi susaṅkhatehi;\nPucchāmi taṁ kassapa etamatthaṁ,\nKathaṁpakāro tava āmagandho”.","en":"‘Putrefaction is not appropriate for me’—\nso you said, O brahmin only by kin.\nYet here you are enjoying a dish of fine rice,\nwell prepared with the flesh of fowl.\nI’m asking you this, Kassapa:\nwhat do you take to be putrefaction?”"}},{"id":"snp2.2:4","sourceIds":["snp2.2:4.1","snp2.2:4.2","snp2.2:4.3","snp2.2:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Pāṇātipāto vadhachedabandhanaṁ,\nTheyyaṁ musāvādo nikativañcanāni ca;\nAjjhenakuttaṁ paradārasevanā,\nEsāmagandho na hi maṁsabhojanaṁ.","en":"“Killing creatures, mutilation, murder, abduction;\nstealing, lying, cheating and fraud,\nlearning crooked spells, adultery:\nthis is putrefaction, not eating meat."}},{"id":"snp2.2:5","sourceIds":["snp2.2:5.1","snp2.2:5.2","snp2.2:5.3","snp2.2:5.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ye idha kāmesu asaññatā janā,\nRasesu giddhā asucibhāvamassitā;\nNatthikadiṭṭhī visamā durannayā,\nEsāmagandho na hi maṁsabhojanaṁ.","en":"People here with unbridled sensuality,\ngreedy for tastes, mixed up in impurity,\nnihilists, immoral, intractable:\nthis is putrefaction, not eating meat."}},{"id":"snp2.2:6","sourceIds":["snp2.2:6.1","snp2.2:6.2","snp2.2:6.3","snp2.2:6.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ye lūkhasā dāruṇā piṭṭhimaṁsikā,\nMittadduno nikkaruṇātimānino;\nAdānasīlā na ca denti kassaci,\nEsāmagandho na hi maṁsabhojanaṁ.","en":"Tough, callous calumniators,\npitiless and arrogant betrayers of friends,\nmisers who never give anything:\nthis is putrefaction, not eating meat."}},{"id":"snp2.2:7","sourceIds":["snp2.2:7.1","snp2.2:7.2","snp2.2:7.3","snp2.2:7.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Kodho mado thambho paccupaṭṭhāpanā,\nMāyā usūyā bhassasamussayo ca;\nMānātimāno ca asabbhi santhavo,\nEsāmagandho na hi maṁsabhojanaṁ.","en":"Anger, vanity, obstinacy, contrariness,\ndeceit, jealousy, boastfulness,\nhaughtiness, intimacy with the wicked:\nthis is putrefaction, not eating meat."}},{"id":"snp2.2:8","sourceIds":["snp2.2:8.1","snp2.2:8.2","snp2.2:8.3","snp2.2:8.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ye pāpasīlā iṇaghātasūcakā,\nVohārakūṭā idha pāṭirūpikā;\nNarādhamā yedha karonti kibbisaṁ,\nEsāmagandho na hi maṁsabhojanaṁ.","en":"The ill-behaved, debt-evaders, informants,\nbusiness cheats and con-artists,\nvile men committing sin:\nthis is putrefaction, not eating meat."}},{"id":"snp2.2:9","sourceIds":["snp2.2:9.1","snp2.2:9.2","snp2.2:9.3","snp2.2:9.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ye idha pāṇesu asaññatā janā,\nParesamādāya vihesamuyyutā;\nDussīlaluddā pharusā anādarā,\nEsāmagandho na hi maṁsabhojanaṁ.","en":"People here who can’t stop harming living creatures,\ntaking from others, intent on hurting,\nimmoral, cruel, harsh, lacking regard for others:\nthis is putrefaction, not eating meat."}},{"id":"snp2.2:10","sourceIds":["snp2.2:10.1","snp2.2:10.2","snp2.2:10.3","snp2.2:10.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Etesu giddhā viruddhātipātino,\nNiccuyyutā pecca tamaṁ vajanti ye;\nPatanti sattā nirayaṁ avaṁsirā,\nEsāmagandho na hi maṁsabhojanaṁ.","en":"Greedy, hostile, aggressive to others,\nand addicted to evil—those beings pass into darkness,\nfalling headlong into hell:\nthis is putrefaction, not eating meat."}},{"id":"snp2.2:11","sourceIds":["snp2.2:11.1","snp2.2:11.2","snp2.2:11.3","snp2.2:11.4","snp2.2:11.5","snp2.2:11.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Na macchamaṁsānamanāsakattaṁ,\nNa naggiyaṁ na muṇḍiyaṁ jaṭājallaṁ;\nKharājināni nāggihuttassupasevanā,\nYe vāpi loke amarā bahū tapā;\nMantāhutī yaññamutūpasevanā,\nSodhenti maccaṁ avitiṇṇakaṅkhaṁ.","en":"Not fish or flesh or fasting,\nnudity or baldness, or dreadlocks or dirt,\nnot rough hides or serving the sacred flame,\nor the many endless mortifications in the world,\nnot hymns or oblations, sacrifices or seasonal observances,\nwill cleanse a mortal not free of doubt."}},{"id":"snp2.2:12","sourceIds":["snp2.2:12.1","snp2.2:12.2","snp2.2:12.3","snp2.2:12.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sotesu gutto viditindriyo care,\nDhamme ṭhito ajjavamaddave rato;\nSaṅgātigo sabbadukkhappahīno,\nNa lippati diṭṭhasutesu dhīro”.","en":"Guarding the streams of sense impressions, wander with faculties understood,\nstanding on the teaching, delighting in integrity and tenderness.\nThe attentive have slipped their chains and given up all suffering;\nthey don’t cling to the seen and the heard.”"}},{"id":"snp2.2:13","sourceIds":["snp2.2:13.1","snp2.2:13.2","snp2.2:13.3","snp2.2:13.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Iccetamatthaṁ bhagavā punappunaṁ,\nAkkhāsi naṁ vedayi mantapāragū;\nCitrāhi gāthāhi munī pakāsayi,\nNirāmagandho asito durannayo.","en":"The Buddha explained this matter to him again and again,\nuntil the master of hymns understood it.\nIt was illustrated with colorful verses\nby the sage free of putrefaction, unattached, hard to trace."}},{"id":"snp2.2:14","sourceIds":["snp2.2:14.1","snp2.2:14.2","snp2.2:14.3","snp2.2:14.4","snp2.2:14.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sutvāna buddhassa subhāsitaṁ padaṁ,\nNirāmagandhaṁ sabbadukkhappanūdanaṁ;\nNīcamano vandi tathāgatassa,\nTattheva pabbajjamarocayitthāti.\nĀmagandhasuttaṁ dutiyaṁ.","en":"Having heard the fine words of the Buddha,\nthat are free of putrefaction, casting aside all suffering;\nhumbled, he bowed to the Realized One,\nand right away begged to go forth."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/snp2.2/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."}