{"collection":"Buddhism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bud/sbe20/sbe20074.htm","path":"bud/sbe20/sbe20074.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bud/sbe20/sbe20074.htm","text":"1. Now at that time the Blessed One was staying at Anupiy\u00e2 2. Anupiy\u00e2 is a town belonging to the Mallas 3. Now at that time the most distinguished of the young men of the S\u00e2kya clan had renounced the world in imitation of the Blessed One.\nNow there were two brothers, Mah\u00e2n\u00e2ma the S\u00e2kyan, and Anuruddha the S\u00e2kyan. Anuruddha the S\u00e2kyan was delicately nurtured; and he had three storeyed residences, one for the cold season, one for the hot season, and one for the season of the rains 4. During the four months spent in the\nresidence for the season of the rains, he was waited upon by women performing music 1, and came not down from the upper storey of his residence.\nThen Mah\u00e2n\u00e2ma the S\u00e2kyan thought: 'Now the most distinguished of the young men of the S\u00e2kya clan have already renounced the world in imitation of the Blessed One, but from our own family no one has gone forth from the household life into the houseless state. Let therefore either I, or Anuruddha, renounce the world.' And he went to Anuruddha the S\u00e2kyan, and said [so to him, adding], 'Either therefore do you go forth, or I will do so.'\n'I am delicate. It is impossible for me to go forth from the household life into the houseless state. Do you do so.'\n2. 'But come now, O beloved Anuruddha, I will tell you what is incident to the household life. First, you have to get your fields ploughed. When that is done, you have to get them sown. When that is done, you have to get the water led down over them. When that is done, you have to get the water led off again. When that is done, you have to get the weeds pulled up 2. When that is done, you have to get the crop reaped. When that is done, you have to get the crop carried away. When that is done, you have to get it arranged\ninto bundles. When that is done, you have to get it trodden out 1. When that is done, you have to get the straw picked out. When that is done, you have to get all the chaff removed. When that is done, you have to get it winnowed. When that is done, you have to get the harvest garnered 2. When that is done, you have to do just the same the next year, and the same all over again the year after that.\n'The work is never over: one sees not the end of one's labours. O! when shall our work be over? When shall we see the end of our labours? When shall we, still possessing and retaining the pleasures of our five senses, yet dwell at rest? Yes! the work, beloved Anuruddha, is never over; no end appears to our labours. Even when our fathers and forefathers had completed their time 3, even then was their work unfinished.'\n'Then do you take thought for the household duties. I will go forth from the household life into the houseless state.'\nAnd Anuruddha the S\u00e2kyan went to his mother, and said to her: 'I want, mother, to go forth from the household life into the houseless state. Grant me thy permission to do so.'\nAnd when he had thus spoken, his mother replied\nto Anuruddha the S\u00e2kyan, and said: 'You two, O beloved Anuruddha, are my two only sons, near and dear to me, in whom I find no evil. Through death I shall some day, against my will, be separated from you; but how can I be willing, whilst you are still alive, that you should go forth from the household life into the houseless state?'\n[And a second time Anuruddha the S\u00e2kyan made the same request, and received the same reply. And a third time Anuruddha the S\u00e2kyan made the same request to his mother.]\n3. Now at that time Bhaddiya the S\u00e2kya R\u00e2ga held rule over the S\u00e2kyas; and he was a friend of Anuruddha the S\u00e2kyan's. And the mother of Anuruddha the S\u00e2kyan, thinking that that being so, the R\u00e2ga would not be able to renounce the world, said to her son: 'If, beloved Anuruddha, Bhaddiya the S\u00e2kyan R\u00e2ga will renounce the world, thou also mayest go forth into the houseless state.'\nThen Anuruddha the S\u00e2kyan went to Bhaddiya the S\u00e2kyan Raga, and said to him: 'My renunciation of the world, dear friend, is being obstructed by thee.'\n'Then let that obstruction, dear friend, be removed. Even with thee will I 1--renounce thou the world according to thy wish.'\n'Come, dear friend, let us both renounce the world together!'\n'I am not capable, dear friend, of giving up the household life. Whatsoever else you can ask of me, that I will do 1. Do you go forth (alone).'\n'My mother, dear friend, has told me that if thou dost so, I may. And thou hast even now declared \"If thy renunciation be obstructed by me, then let that obstruction be removed. Even with thee will I--renounce thou the world, according to thy wish.\" Come, then, dear friend, let us both renounce the world.'\nNow at that time men were speakers of truth, and keepers of their word which they had pledged. And Bhaddiya the S\u00e2kya R\u00e2ga said to Anuruddha the S\u00e2kyan: 'Wait, my friend, for seven years. At the end of seven years we will renounce the world together.'\n'Seven years are too long, dear friend. I am not able to wait for seven years.'\n[And the same offer was made successively of six years and so on down to one year, of seven months and so on down to one month, and even of a fortnight, and still there was ever the same reply. At last the R\u00e2ga said,]\n'Wait, my friend, for seven days, whilst I hand over the kingdom to my sons and my brothers.'\n'Seven days is not too long. I will wait thus far' (was the reply).\n4. So Bhaddiya the S\u00e2kya R\u00e2ga, and Anuruddha, and \u00c2nanda, and Bhagu, and Kimbila, and Devadatta--just as they had so often previously gone\nout to the pleasure-ground with fourfold array--even so did they now go out with fourfold array, and Up\u00e2li the barber went with them, making seven in all.\nAnd when they had gone some distance, they sent their retinue back, and crossed over into the neighbouring district, and took off their fine things, and wrapped them in their robes, and made a bundle of them, and said to Up\u00e2li the barber: 'Do you now, good Up\u00e2li, turn back. These things will be sufficient for you to live upon.'\nBut as he was going back, Up\u00e2li the barber thought: 'The S\u00e2kyas are fierce. They will think that these young men have been brought by me to destruction, and they will slay me. But since now these young men of the S\u00e2kya clan can go forth from the household life into the houseless state, why indeed should not I?' And he let down the bundle (from his back), and hung the bundle on a tree, saying, 'Let whoso finds it, take it, as a gift,' and returned to the place where the young S\u00e2kyans were.\nAnd the S\u00e2kya youths saw him coming from afar, and on seeing, they said to him: 'What have you come back for, good Up\u00e2li?'\nThen he told them [what he had thought, and what he had done with the bundle, and why he was returned].\n'Thou host done well, good Up\u00e2li (was the reply), in that thou didst not return; for the S\u00e2kyas are fierce, and might have killed thee.'\nAnd they took Up\u00e2li the barber with them to the place where the Blessed One was. And on arriving there, they bowed down before the Blessed One, and\ntook their seats on one side. And so seated they said to the Blessed One: 'We S\u00e2kyas, Lord, are haughty. And this Up\u00e2li the barber has long been an attendant, Lord, upon us. May the Blessed One admit him to the Order before us, so that we may render him respect and reverence, and bow down with outstretched hands before him (as our senior), and thus shall the S\u00e2kya pride be humbled in us S\u00e2kyans 1.'\nThen the Blessed One received first Up\u00e2li the barber, and afterwards those young men of the S\u00e2kya clan, into the ranks of the Order. And the venerable Bhaddiya, before that rainy season was over, became master of the Threefold Wisdom 2, and the venerable Anuruddha acquired the Heavenly Vision 3, and the venerable \u00c2nanda realised the effect of having entered upon the Stream 4, and Devadatta attained to that kind of Iddhi which is attainable even by those who have not entered upon the Excellent Way 5.\n5 1. Now at that time the venerable Bhaddiya, who had retired into the forest to the foot of a tree, into solitude, gave utterance over and over again to this ecstatic exclamation: 'O happiness! O happiness!' And a number of Bhikkhus went up to the place where the Blessed One was, and bowed down before him, and took their seats on one side. And, so seated, they [told the Blessed One of this], and added, 'For a certainty, Lord, the venerable Bhaddiya is not contented as he lives the life of purity; but rather it is when calling to mind the happiness of his former sovranty that he gives vent to this saying.'\nThen the Blessed One addressed a certain Bhikkhu; and said: 'Do you go, O Bhikkhu, and in my name call Bhaddiya the Bhikkhu, saying, The Teacher, venerable Bhaddiya, is calling for you.\"'\n'Even so, Lord,' said that Bhikkhu, in assent to the Blessed One. And he went to Bhaddiya, and called him [in those words].\n6. 'Very, well,' said the venerable Bhaddiya, in\nassent to that Bhikkhu; and he came to the Blessed One, and bowed down before him, and took his seat on one side. And when he was so seated, the Blessed One said to the venerable Bhaddiya:\n'Is it true, as they say, that you Bhaddiya, when retired into the forest to the foot of a tree, into solitude, have given utterance over and over again to this ecstatic exclamation, \"O happiness! O happiness!\" What circumstance was it, O Bhaddiya, that you had in your mind when you acted thus?'\n'Formerly, Lord, when I was a king, I had a guard completely provided both within and without my private apartments, both within and without the town, and within the (borders of my) country. Yet though, Lord, I was thus guarded and protected, I was fearful, anxious, distrustful, and alarmed. But now, Lord, even when in the forest, at the foot of a tree, in solitude, I am without fear or anxiety, trustful and not alarmed; I dwell at ease, subdued 1, secure 2, with mind as peaceful as an antelope's 3. It was when calling this fact to mind, Lord, that I gave utterance over and over again to that cry, \"O happiness! O happiness!\"'\nThen the Blessed One, on hearing that, gave utterance at that time to this song:\n224:1 With the whole of the following story compare the, in many respects, fuller account given by the commentator on the Dhammapada (Fausb\u00f6ll, pp. 139 and following).\n224:2 This was the spot where Gotama spent the first week after his renunciation of the world, before he went on to R\u00e2gagaha (Rh. D.'s 'Buddhist Birth Stories,' I, 87). Professor Fausb\u00f6ll there (G\u00e2taka I, 65) reads An\u00fbpiyam, but all his MSS. have the \u016d short. It is noteworthy that in our text the locative is formed as if the word were feminine, though the neuter form is used for the nominative.\n224:3 The more usual mode of adding this description in similar passages at the commencement of all the Suttas would lead us to expect here Mall\u00e2nam nigame.\n224:4 Compare Mah\u00e2vagga I, 7, I, where the same thing is said of Yasa.\n225:1 Nippurisehi turiyehi. That Childers's rendering, 'without men, without people,' is inadequate is clear from the context at the passage which he quotes from G\u00e2taka I, 53.\n225:2 Nidd\u00e2peti. Buddhaghosa says, 'Pull up the weeds' (tin\u00e2ni). The word occurs also at G\u00e2taka I, 215, where there is a similar list of farming operations, which, though smaller, contains one or two items not given here.\n226:1 Madd\u00e2peti. There is mention of threshing (prati-han) already in the Vedas. See the passages collected by Zimmer, 'Altindisches Leben,' p. 238. But treading out is even still a very common, if not the more usual, process throughout India and Ceylon.\n226:2 Atihar\u00e2peti. See Milinda Pa\u00f1ha, p. 66. The simple verb occurs also in a similar connection in the Bhikkhun\u00ee-vibha\u1e45ga in the introductory story to P\u00e2kittiya VII.\n226:3 That is, had died.\n227:1 Aham tay\u00e2. Buddhaghosa explains that the R\u00e2ga is beginning to say that he will go with his friend. But a desire for the glory of sovereignty comes over his heart, and he leaves the sentence unfinished. (The P\u00e2li is given in the notes on the text, p. 323.)\n228:1 Ty\u00e2ham. See Dr. Morris's remarks on this elision in his introduction to the Kariy\u00e2 Pitaka (P\u00e2li Text Society, 1882), where he makes it equal to tad aham. This seems to us open to question, at least in this passage, where it may possibly stand for te aham.\n230:1 This reputation of the S\u00e2kya family for pride is referred to in G\u00e2taka I, 88, 89.\n230:2 Tisso vigg\u00e2, see Rh. D.'s remarks at pp. 161, 162 of 'Buddhist Suttas from the P\u00e2li' (S.B.E., vol. xi). They are probably here the three viggas referred to in the Sutta-vibha\u1e45ga, P\u00e2r\u00e2gika I, 1, 6-8, as the second of those is the Heavenly Vision, here mentioned in the next clause.\n230:3 Dibbakakkhu, a full description of the details of which will be found in the stock paragraph translated by Rh. D. in 'Buddhist Suttas from the P\u00e2li' (S.B.E., vol. xi, pp. 216-218).\n230:4 Sot\u00e2pattiphala; that is, he became free from the delusion of self (sakk\u00e2yaditthi), from doubt (vikikikkh\u00e2), and from dependence upon ceremonies or works (s\u00eelabbata-p\u00e2r\u00e2m\u00e2sa). See Rh. D.'s manual, 'Buddhism,' pp. 108-110.\n230:5 Pothugganik\u00e2 iddhi. What this may be is unknown to us. A fourfold Iddhi is described in detail in the stock passage p. 231 translated by Rh. D. in 'Buddhist Suttas from the P\u00e2li,' S.B.E., vol. xi, p. 214, and the fourfold Iddhi of the ideal king in the similar passage, loc. cit., pp. 259-261. The Iddhi here referred to may be the former of these two, though that list does not include the power ascribed to Devadatta in the next chapter. At G\u00e2taka I, 140, the expression of our text here is replaced by gh\u00e2na, though the account there is otherwise the same.\nIt is worthy of notice that Devadatta, though a Bhikkhu, is not honoured with the standing epithet, 'venerable,' always used of the other members of the Order, even when they are represented to have been of bad character.\n231:1 The following incident, with a summary of the preceding sections, forms the introductory story to the 10th G\u00e2taka (Rh. D.'s 'Buddhist Birth Stories,' i. pp. 190-193). The legend may have first arisen as an explanation of the name Bhaddiya, which means 'the fortunate one.'\n232:1 Pannalomo. See our note 2 on Kullavagga I, 6, 1 (above, vol. ii, p. 339).\n232:2 Paradavutto. This is the reading of the Sinhalese MS., and is the correct one. See Oldenberg's note at p. 363 of the edition of the text. Our translation is conjectural.\n232:3 Migabh\u00fbtena ketas\u00e2. The meaning of miga in this phrase is not certain; and the figure may be drawn from the careless mind of any animal in its natural state. We have not noticed the idiom elsewhere; but compare the converse figure, bhantamiga-sappatibh\u00e2go s\u00e2sane anabhirato, at G\u00e2taka I, 303, 6.","title":"SBE 20: Seventh Khandhaka: Chapter 1","type":"page"}