{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn2.10/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn2.10","id":"suttacentral_sn2.10","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn2.10/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At S\u0101vatth\u012b. Now at that time the Sun God had been seized by R\u0101hu, lord of titans. Then the Sun God, recollecting the Buddha, at that time spoke this verse: \u201cHomage to you, Buddha, hero! You\u2019re free in every way. I\u2019ve wandered into confinement: be my refuge!\u201d Then the Buddha addressed R\u0101hu in verse concerning the Sun God: \u201cThe Sun God has gone for refuge to the Realized One, the perfected one. The Buddhas have compassion for the world\u2014 so R\u0101hu, release the Sun! He is a beacon in the darkness, the dazzling sun, circle of awesome might. R\u0101hu, do not swallow him as he traverses the sky. R\u0101hu, release my offspring, the Sun!\u201d Then R\u0101hu, having released the Sun, rushed to see Vepacitti, lord of titans and stood to one side, shocked and awestruck. Vepacitti addressed him in verse: \u201cWhy the rush? R\u0101hu, you released the Sun and came here looking like you\u2019re in shock: why do you stand there so scared?\u201d \u201cMy head would have exploded in seven pieces, I would have found no joy in life, if, when enchanted by the Buddha\u2019s verse, I had not released the Sun.\u201d","title":"The Sun","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":192}