{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an4.68/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an4.68","id":"suttacentral_an4.68","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an4.68/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"At one time the Buddha was staying near R\u0101jagaha, on the Vulture\u2019s Peak Mountain, not long after Devadatta had left. There the Buddha spoke to the mendicants about Devadatta: \u201cPossessions, honor, and popularity came to Devadatta for his own ruin and downfall. It\u2019s like a banana plant \u2026 or a bamboo \u2026 or a reed, all of which bear fruit to their own ruin and downfall \u2026 It\u2019s like a mule, which becomes pregnant to its own ruin and downfall. In the same way, possessions, honor, and popularity came to Devadatta for his own ruin and downfall. The banana plant is destroyed by its own fruit, as are the bamboo and the reed. Honor destroys a reprobate, as pregnancy destroys a mule.\u201d","title":"Devadatta","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":122}