SN4:3 Beautiful
- DG BB TBW © Translated from the Pali by Bhikkhu Bodhi. (More copyright information)
1While dwelling at Uruvela. Now on that occasion the Blessed One was sitting out in the open air in the thick darkness of the night while it was drizzling. Then Māra the Evil One, wishing to arouse fear, trepidation, and terror in the Blessed One, approached the Blessed One and, not far from him, displayed diverse lustrous shapes, both beautiful and hideous. Then the Blessed One, having understood, "This is Māra the Evil One," addressed him in verses:
2v.450 "You’ve wandered on through the long course
Creating beautiful and hideous shapes.
Enough, Evil One, with that trick of yours:
You’re defeated, End-maker!
3v.451 "Those who are well restrained
In body, speech, and mind,
Do not come under Māra's control
Nor become Māra's henchmen."
[n.268] Na te marassa paddhagū. The last word is read here as in Ee2 and Sn 1095. Be and Se have baddhagū, Ee1 paccagū. PED conjectures that paddhagu may represent Skt *pradhvaga, "those who accompany one on a journey," that is, one's servants. Spk glosses: "They do not become your disciples, pupils, apprentices" (baddhacara sissa antevasika na honti). The word baddhacara (Spk-pṭ: = paṭibaddhacariya) occurs at v. 578a.
4Then Māra the Evil One … disappeared right there. sn.i.105
1Evaṁ me sutaṁ— ekaṁ samayaṁ bhagavā uruvelāyaṁ vihārati najjā nerañjarāya tīre ajapālanigrodhamūle paṭhamābhisambuddho. Tena kho pana samayena bhagavā rattandhakāratimisāyaṁ abbhokāse nisinno hoti, devo ca ekamekaṁ phusāyati. Atha kho māro pāpimā, bhagavato bhayaṁ chambhitattaṁ lomahaṁsaṁ uppādetukāmo, yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā bhagavato avidūre uccāvacā vaṇṇanibhā upadaṁseti, subhā ceva asubhā ca. Atha kho bhagavā "māro ayaṁ pāpimā" iti viditvā māraṁ pāpimantaṁ gāthāhi ajjhabhāsi:
2"Saṁsaraṁ dīghamaddhānaṁ,
vaṇṇaṁ katvā subhāsubhaṁ;
Alaṁ te tena pāpima,
nihato tvamasi antaka.
3Ye ca kāyena vācāya,
manasā ca susaṁvutā;
Na te māravasānugā,
na te mārassa baddhagū"ti.
4Atha kho māro … pe … tatthevantaradhāyīti.