{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn3.9/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn3.9","id":"suttacentral_sn3.9","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn3.9/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At S\u0101vatth\u012b. Now at that time a grand sacrifice had been set up for King Pasenadi of Kosala. Bulls, bullocks, heifers, goats and rams\u2014five hundred of each\u2014had been led to the pillar for the sacrifice. His bondservants, servants, and workers did their jobs under threat of punishment and danger, weeping with tearful faces. Then several mendicants robed up in the morning and, taking their bowls and robes, entered S\u0101vatth\u012b for alms. Then, after the meal, when they returned from almsround, they went up to the Buddha, bowed, sat down to one side, and told him what was happening. Then, understanding this matter, on that occasion the Buddha recited these verses: \u201cHorse sacrifice, human sacrifice, the \u2018casting of the yoke-pin\u2019, <j>the \u2018royal soma drinking\u2019, and the \u2018unimpeded\u2019\u2014 these grand, violent sacrifices yield no great fruit. The great sages of right comportment don\u2019t attend sacrifices where goats, sheep, and cattle and various creatures are killed. But the great sages of right comportment do attend those sacrifices that are non-violent and propitious, where goats, sheep, and cattle, and various creatures are not killed. An intelligent person should sacrifice like this, for this sacrifice is very fruitful. For a sponsor of sacrifices like this, things get better, not worse. Such a sacrifice is truly abundant, and even the deities are pleased.\u201d","title":"Sacrifice","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":217}