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Samuggajātaka

“Whence come ye, friends”—This story the Master, while dwelling at Jetavana, told of a worldly-minded Brother. The Master, they say, asked him if it were true that he was hankering after the world, and on his confessing that it was so, he said, “Why, Brother, do you desire a woman? Verily woman is wicked and ungrateful. Of old Asura demons swallowed women, and though they guarded them in their belly, they could not keep them faithful to one man. How then will you be able to do so?” And hereupon he related an old-world tale.

Pāli: Mahāsaṅgīti Tipiṭaka · Public domain (CC0) via SuttaCentral

0.410. Samuggajātaka

1.1PTS 3.528“Kuto nu āgacchatha bho tayo janā,1.2Svāgatā etha nisīdathāsane;1.3Kaccittha bhonto kusalaṁ anāmayaṁ,1.4Cirassamabbhāgamanaṁ hi vo idha”.

2.1PTS 3.529“Ahameva eko idha majja patto,2.2Na cāpi me dutiyo koci vijjati;2.3Kimeva sandhāya te bhāsitaṁ ise,2.4‘Kuto nu āgacchatha bho tayo janā’”.

3.1“Tuvañca eko bhariyā ca te piyā,3.2Samuggapakkhittanikiṇṇamantare;3.3Sā rakkhitā kucchigatāva te sadā,3.4Vāyussa puttena sahā tahiṁ ratā”.

4.1PTS 3.530“Saṁviggarūpo isinā viyākato,4.2So dānavo tattha samuggamuggili;4.3Addakkhi bhariyaṁ suci māladhāriniṁ,4.4Vāyussa puttena sahā tahiṁ rataṁ”.

5.1“Sudiṭṭharūpamuggatapānuvattinā,5.2Hīnā narā ye pamadāvasaṁ gatā;5.3Yathā have pāṇarivettha rakkhitā,5.4Duṭṭhā mayī aññamabhippamodayi.

6.1Divā ca ratto ca mayā upaṭṭhitā,6.2Tapassinā jotirivā vane vasaṁ;6.3Sā dhammamukkamma adhammamācari,6.4Akiriyarūpo pamadāhi santhavo.

7.1Sarīramajjhamhi ṭhitātimaññahaṁ,7.2Mayhaṁ ayanti asatiṁ asaññataṁ;7.3Sā dhammamukkamma adhammamācari,7.4Akiriyarūpo pamadāhi santhavo.

8.1Surakkhitaṁ meti kathaṁ nu vissase,8.2Anekacittāsu na hatthi rakkhaṇā;8.3Etā hi pātālapapātasannibhā,8.4Etthappamatto byasanaṁ nigaccha”ti.

9.1“Tasmā hi te sukhino vītasokā,9.2Ye mātugāmehi caranti nissaṭā;9.3Etaṁ sivaṁ uttamamābhipatthayaṁ,9.4Na mātugāmehi kareyya santhavanti”.

10.1Samuggajātakaṁ dasamaṁ.