Saṁyutta Nikāya — The Connected Discourses

SN19: Connected Discourses with Lakkhaṇa

SN19:11 With Head Submerged

1… "I saw a man with head submerged in a pit of dung … ."


"That being was an adulterer in this same Rājagaha…." [n.353] Spk: Having experienced contact with another man's wife, having enjoyed vile pleasure, sensual pleasure, he has been reborn in circumstances where, as a counterpart of that kamma, he experiences contact with filth and undergoes pain.

1Evaṁ me sutaṁ—​ ekaṁ samayaṁ rājagahe veḷuvane. "Idhāhaṁ, āvuso, gijjhakūṭā pabbatā orohanto addasaṁ purisaṁ gūthakūpe sasīsakaṁ nimuggaṁ … pe …


eso, bhikkhave, satto imasmiṁyeva rājagahe pāradāriko ahosi … pe … .


Paṭhamaṁ.

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