{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn17.36/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn17.36","id":"suttacentral_sn17.36","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn17.36/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"Near R\u0101jagaha, in the Bamboo Grove, the squirrels\u2019 feeding ground. Now at that time Prince Aj\u0101tasattu was going with five hundred carts at daybreak and dusk to attend on Devadatta, presenting him with an offering of five hundred servings of food. Then several mendicants went up to the Buddha, bowed, sat down to one side, and said to him, \u201cSir, Prince Aj\u0101tasattu is going with five hundred carts at daybreak and dusk to attend on Devadatta, presenting him with an offering of five hundred servings of food.\u201d \u201cMendicants, don\u2019t envy Devadatta\u2019s possessions, honor, and popularity. As long as Prince Aj\u0101tasattu goes with five hundred carts at daybreak and dusk to attend on Devadatta, presenting him with an offering of five hundred servings of food, Devadatta can expect decline, not growth, in skillful qualities. If they were to lance a boil on a wild dog\u2019s nose, it would get even wilder. In the same way, as long as Prince Aj\u0101tasattu goes with five hundred carts at daybreak and dusk to attend on Devadatta, presenting him with an offering of five hundred servings of food, Devadatta can expect decline, not growth, in skillful qualities. So grim are possessions, honor, and popularity. \u2026\u201d","title":"Five Hundred Carts","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":200}