{"id":"thag6.13","title":"Sirimaṇḍa","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"thag6.13","title":"Sirimaṇḍa","units":[{"id":"thag6.13:0","sourceIds":["thag6.13:0.1","thag6.13:0.2","thag6.13:0.3","thag6.13:0.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Theragāthā 6.13\nChakkanipāta\nPaṭhamavagga\nSirimaṇḍattheragāthā","en":"Verses of the Senior Monks 6.13\nThe Book of the Sixes\nChapter One\nSirimaṇḍa"}},{"id":"thag6.13:1","sourceIds":["thag6.13:1.1","thag6.13:1.2","thag6.13:1.3","thag6.13:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Channamativassati,\nvivaṭaṁ nātivassati;\nTasmā channaṁ vivaretha,\nevaṁ taṁ nātivassati.","en":"The rain saturates things that are covered up;\nit doesn’t saturate things that are open.\nTherefore you should open up a covered thing,\nso the rain will not saturate it."}},{"id":"thag6.13:2","sourceIds":["thag6.13:2.1","thag6.13:2.2","thag6.13:2.3","thag6.13:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Maccunābbhahato loko,\njarāya parivārito;\nTaṇhāsallena otiṇṇo,\nicchādhūpāyito sadā.","en":"The world is beaten down by death\nand surrounded by old age.\nThe dart of craving has struck it down,\nand it’s always fuming with desire."}},{"id":"thag6.13:3","sourceIds":["thag6.13:3.1","thag6.13:3.2","thag6.13:3.3","thag6.13:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Maccunābbhahato loko,\nparikkhitto jarāya ca;\nHaññati niccamattāṇo,\npattadaṇḍova takkaro.","en":"The world is beaten down by death,\ncaged by old age,\nbeaten constantly without respite,\nlike a criminal being flogged."}},{"id":"thag6.13:4","sourceIds":["thag6.13:4.1","thag6.13:4.2","thag6.13:4.3","thag6.13:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Āgacchantaggikhandhāva,\nmaccu byādhi jarā tayo;\nPaccuggantuṁ balaṁ natthi,\njavo natthi palāyituṁ.","en":"Three things are coming, like a wall of flame:\ndeath, disease, and old age.\nNo power can stand before them,\nand no speed’s enough to flee."}},{"id":"thag6.13:5","sourceIds":["thag6.13:5.1","thag6.13:5.2","thag6.13:5.3","thag6.13:5.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Amoghaṁ divasaṁ kayirā,\nappena bahukena vā;\nYaṁ yaṁ vijahate rattiṁ,\ntadūnaṁ tassa jīvitaṁ.","en":"Don’t waste your day,\na little or a lot.\nEvery night that passes\nshortens your life by that much."}},{"id":"thag6.13:6","sourceIds":["thag6.13:6.1","thag6.13:6.2","thag6.13:6.3","thag6.13:6.4","thag6.13:6.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Carato tiṭṭhato vāpi,\nāsīnasayanassa vā;\nUpeti carimā ratti,\nna te kālo pamajjitun”ti.\n… Sirimaṇḍo thero ….","en":"Walking or standing,\nsitting or lying down:\nyour final night draws near;\nyou have no time to be careless."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/thag6.13/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."}