{"collection":"Khuddaka Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_cp17/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_cp17","id":"suttacentral_cp17","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/cp17/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Khuddaka Nikaya"],"text":"\u201cThen again when I was a matted-hair ascetic of severe penance, M\u0101ta\u1e45ga was my name, I was virtuous and serene. A brahmin and I both lived on a bank of the Ganges. I stayed upstream, the brahmin downstream. Wandering along the riverbank, he saw my hermitage upstream. Then he abused and cursed me, that my head would split in seven. If I were upset with him and if I were not taking care of my ethics, then just with a glance I could have reduced him to ashes. But when he cursed me then, so angry and bitter-hearted, it fell right back on his own head: I freed him from that yoke. I guarded my ethics, not my life. For then I was ethical, because it was solely for awakening.\u201d","title":"M\u0101ta\u1e45ga\u2019s Conduct","tradition":"Khuddaka Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":130}