{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn29.21-50/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn29.21-50","id":"suttacentral_sn29.21-50","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn29.21-50/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At S\u0101vatth\u012b. Seated to one side, that mendicant said to the Buddha: \u201cSir, what is the cause, what is the reason why someone, when their body breaks up, after death, is reborn in the company of the womb-born dragons \u2026 moisture-born dragons \u2026 spontaneously-born dragons?\u201d \u201cMendicant, it\u2019s when someone does both kinds of deeds by body, speech, and mind. And they\u2019ve heard: \u2018The spontaneously-born dragons are long-lived, beautiful, and very happy.\u2019 They think: \u2018If only, when my body breaks up, after death, I would be reborn in the company of the spontaneously-born dragons!\u2019 They give food \u2026 drink \u2026 a lamp. When their body breaks up, after death, they\u2019re reborn in the company of the spontaneously-born dragons. This is the cause, this is the reason why someone, when their body breaks up, after death, is reborn in the company of the spontaneously-born dragons.\u201d (Each set of ten discourses of this series should be told in full the same way.) The Linked Discourses on dragons are complete.","title":"Thirty Discourses On How Giving Helps to Become Womb-Born, Etc.","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":166}