{"collection":"Khuddaka Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_cp23/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_cp23","id":"suttacentral_cp23","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/cp23/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Khuddaka Nikaya"],"text":"\u201cThen again when I was the true-born son of the king of K\u0101si, I grew up in an iron house, so I was named Ayoghara. \u2018Your life has been a painful one, as you\u2019ve been raised in confinement. Today, my son, rule the entirety of this land.\u2019 Having bowed to the citizens of country and town, the king and his people, I raised my cupped palms and said the following. \u2018All the creatures of this earth\u2014 low, middle, or high\u2014 are unprotected in their own home, in which they grew up with their families. It was unique in the world to be raised in confinement. I grew up in an iron house, scarcely lit by sun or moon. Filled with rotting carcass, I escaped my mother\u2019s womb. Then to a viler suffering I was tossed in an iron house. Having fallen into such appallingly dreadful suffering, if I desired kingships, I\u2019d be the worst of the worst. I\u2019m fed up with the body, I have no need for kingship. I shall seek quenching where Death will not crush me.\u2019 Reflecting in this way, as the great crowd wailed, like a bull elephant bursting his ropes, I entered the forest grove. I had no dislike of my parents, nor did I dislike the great fame. But because omniscience is precious to me, that is why I forsook kingship.\u201d","title":"Ayoghara\u2019s Conduct","tradition":"Khuddaka Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":227}