{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn29.3/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn29.3","id":"suttacentral_sn29.3","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn29.3/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At one time the Buddha was staying near S\u0101vatth\u012b in Jeta\u2019s Grove, An\u0101thapi\u1e47\u1e0dika\u2019s monastery. Then a mendicant went up to the Buddha, sat down to one side, and said to him: \u201cSir, what is the cause, what is the reason why some egg-born dragons keep the sabbath, having transformed their bodies?\u201d \u201cMendicant, it\u2019s when some egg-born dragons think: \u2018In the past we did both kinds of deeds by body, speech, and mind. When the body broke up, after death, we were reborn in the company of the egg-born dragons. If today we do good things by body, speech, and mind, when the body breaks up, after death, we may be reborn in a good place, a heavenly realm. Come, let us do good things by way of body, speech, and mind.\u2019 This is the cause, this is the reason why some egg-born dragons keep the sabbath, having transformed their bodies.\u201d","title":"Sabbath","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":150}