SN3:6 Few
- DG BB TBW © Translated from the Pali by Bhikkhu Bodhi. (More copyright information)
1At Sāvatthī. Sitting to one side, King Pasenadi of Kosala said to the Blessed One: "Here, venerable sir, while I was alone in seclusion, a reflection arose in my mind thus: ‘Few are those people in the world who, when they obtain superior possessions, do not become intoxicated and negligent, yield to greed for sensual pleasures, and mistreat other beings. Far more numerous are those people in the world who, when they obtain superior possessions, become intoxicated and negligent, sn.i.74 yield to greed for sensual pleasures, and mistreat other beings.’"
2"So it is, great king! So it is, great king!"
The Buddha then repeats the entire statement of King Pasenadi and adds the following verse:
3v.390 "Enamoured with their pleasures and wealth,
Greedy, dazed by sensual pleasures,
They do not realize they have gone too far
Like deer that enter the trap laid out.
Afterwards the bitter fruit is theirs,
For bad indeed is the result."
[n.209] Spk resolves pacchasaṁ, in pāda c, into paccha tesaṁ. Saṁ is from esaṁ, a genitive plural form of the third person pronoun; see Geiger, Pali Grammar, §108.1. In pāda f, hissa = hi ssa < Skt hi sma. See EV I, nn. to 225, 705.
1Sāvatthinidānaṁ. Ekamantaṁ nisinno kho rājā pasenadi kosalo bhagavantaṁ etadavoca: "idha mayhaṁ, bhante, rahogatassa paṭisallīnassa evaṁ cetaso parivitakko udapādi: ‘appakā te sattā lokasmiṁ ye uḷāre uḷāre bhoge labhitvā na ceva majjanti, na ca pamajjanti, na ca kāmesu gedhaṁ āpajjanti, na ca sattesu vippaṭipajjanti. Atha kho eteva bahutarā sattā lokasmiṁ ye uḷāre uḷāre bhoge labhitvā majjanti ceva pamajjanti, ca kāmesu ca gedhaṁ āpajjanti, sattesu ca vippaṭipajjantī’"ti.
2"Evametaṁ, mahārāja, evametaṁ, mahārāja. Appakā te, mahārāja, sattā lokasmiṁ, ye uḷāre uḷāre bhoge labhitvā na ceva majjanti, na ca pamajjanti, na ca kāmesu gedhaṁ āpajjanti, na ca sattesu vippaṭipajjanti. Atha kho eteva bahutarā sattā lokasmiṁ, ye uḷāre uḷāre bhoge labhitvā majjanti ceva pamajjanti ca kāmesu ca gedhaṁ āpajjanti, sattesu ca vippaṭipajjantī"ti. Idamavoca … pe …
3"Sārattā kāmabhogesu,
giddhā kāmesu mucchitā;
Atisāraṁ na bujjhanti,
migā kūṭaṁva oḍḍitaṁ;
Pacchāsaṁ kaṭukaṁ hoti,
vipāko hissa pāpako"ti.