{"collection":"Khuddaka Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_cp20/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_cp20","id":"suttacentral_cp20","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/cp20/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Khuddaka Nikaya"],"text":"\u201cThen again when I was Sa\u1e45khap\u0101la, a dragon of great psychic power, deadly-fanged, lethally venomous, two-tongued, lord of serpents. At a crossroad on a highway crowded with many people, I resolved on the four factors, and made my home there. \u2018My outer skin and inner, flesh, sinews and bones: whoever has use for these, they are already given, please take them.\u2019 Seeing me, the Bhojans, those violent and pitiless hunters, came to me there with sticks and hammers in their hands. Having pierced my nose, tail, and spine, and fastened me to a pole, the Bhojans carried me away. The earth from sea to sea, with its forests and mountains\u2014 had I wished, right there I could have burnt it up with a blast from my nose. Though pierced with stakes, and stabbed with knives, I did not get upset with the Bhojans: this is my perfection of ethics.\u201d","title":"Sa\u1e45khap\u0101la\u2019s Conduct","tradition":"Khuddaka Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":149}