{"collection":"Khuddaka Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_cp32/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_cp32","id":"suttacentral_cp32","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/cp32/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Khuddaka Nikaya"],"text":"\u201cThen again when I was Sutasoma, Lord of the Earth, captured by a cannibal I remembered my promise to a brahmin. A hundred aristocrat warriors he strung up by their hands. Having drained their blood, he brought me for sacrifice. The cannibal asked me, \u2018What do you wish for\u2014release? I shall act as you think, so long as you will return.\u2019 I promised him that I would return at dawn. I went to the delightful city and then renounced kingship. Recollecting the true Dhamma, fostered by former Victors, I gave money to the brahmin, and returned to the cannibal. I had no doubt that he was going to kill me. Protecting my truthful speech, I went to give up my life. There is no one to equal my truthfulness: this is my perfection of truth.\u201d","title":"Sutasoma\u2019s Conduct","tradition":"Khuddaka Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":135}