{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn11.6/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn11.6","id":"suttacentral_sn11.6","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn11.6/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At S\u0101vatth\u012b. \u201cOnce upon a time, mendicants, a battle was fought between the gods and the titans. In that battle the titans won and the gods lost. Defeated, the gods fled north with the titans in pursuit. Then Sakka, lord of gods, addressed his chariot handler M\u0101tali in verse: \u2018M\u0101tali, don\u2019t ram the bird nests in the Red Silk-Cotton Woods with your draft-pole. I\u2019d rather give up our lives to the titans than deprive these birds of their nests.\u2019 \u2018Yes, lord,\u2019 replied M\u0101tali. And he turned the chariot back around, with its team of a thousand thoroughbreds. Then the titans thought, \u2018Now Sakka\u2019s chariot has turned back. The titans will have to fight the gods a second time!\u2019 Terrified, they retreated right away to the citadel of the titans. And that\u2019s how Sakka came to win victory by principle.\u201d","title":"Bird Nests","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":139}