{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn11.23/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn11.23","id":"suttacentral_sn11.23","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn11.23/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At S\u0101vatth\u012b. The Buddha said this: \u201cOnce upon a time, mendicants, Vepacitti, lord of titans, was sick, suffering, gravely ill. So Sakka went to see him to ask after his illness. Vepacitti saw Sakka coming off in the distance, and said to him, \u2018Heal me, lord of gods!\u2019 \u2018Teach me, Vepacitti, the Sambari sorcery.\u2019 \u2018I can\u2019t do that, good fellow, until I have consulted with the titans.\u2019 Then Vepacitti, lord of titans, asked the titans, \u2018Good fellows, may I teach the Sambari sorcery to Sakka, lord of gods?\u2019 \u2018Do not, good fellow, teach the Sambari sorcery to Sakka!\u2019 So Vepacitti addressed Sakka in verse: \u2018O Maghav\u0101, O Sakka, king of gods, Suj\u0101\u2019s husband: a sorceror like Sambara falls into the terrible hell for a full century.\u2019\u201d","title":"The Sambari Sorcery","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":126}