SN7:3 Asurindaka
- DG BB TBW © Translated from the Pali by Bhikkhu Bodhi. (More copyright information)
1On one occasion the Blessed One was dwelling at Rājagaha in the Bamboo Grove, the Squirrel Sanctuary. The brahmin Asurindaka Bharadvaja heard: [n.437] He was the youngest of the Bharadvaja brothers. "It is said that the brahmin of the Bharadvaja clan has gone forth from the household life into homelessness under the ascetic Gotama." Angry and displeased, he approached the Blessed One and abused and reviled him with rude, harsh words.
When he had finished speaking, the Blessed One remained silent. Then the brahmin Asurindaka Bharadvaja said to the Blessed One: "You’re beaten, ascetic! You’re beaten, ascetic!"
The Blessed One:
2v.619 "The fool thinks victory is won
When, by speech, he bellows harshly;
But for one who understands,
Patient endurance is the true victory.
[n.438] Spk: "For one who understands the excellence of endurance, this victory—patient endurance—is his alone (yā titikkhā vijānato adhivāsanāya guṇaṁ vijānantassa titikkhā adhivāsanā, ayaṁ tassa vijaānato va jayo)." Note that neuter jayaṁ is here nominative.
3v.620 "One who repays an angry man with anger
Thereby makes things worse for himself.
Not repaying an angry man with anger,
One wins a battle hard to win.
4v.621 "He practises for the welfare of both—
His own and the other's—
When, knowing that his foe is angry,
He mindfully maintains his peace.
5v.622 "When he achieves the cure of both—
His own and the other's—
The people who consider him a fool
Are unskilled in the Dhamma."
[n.438a] Be and Ee1 & 2 read pāda a: ubhinnaṁ tikicchantanaṁ, which Spk (Be) includes in the lemma and glosses ubhinnaṁ tikicchantaṁ, adding: "Or the latter is itself the reading." In Se and Spk (Se) the readings are exactly the reverse. As the sense requires an accusative singular, the reading ubhinnaṁ tikicchantaṁ taṁ, found at Th 444a, offends against neither grammar nor metre. Ee2 has adopted this reading for the exact parallel v. 882 below, but strangely reverts to ubhinnaṁ tikicchantanaṁ in the third parallel, v. 891.
sn.i.164
6When this was said, the brahmin Asurindaka Bharadvaja said to the Blessed One: "Magnificent, Master Gotama! … " And the Venerable Bharadvaja became one of the arahants.
1Ekaṁ samayaṁ bhagavā rājagahe vihārati veḷuvane kalandakanivāpe. Assosi kho asurindakabhāradvājo brāhmaṇo: "bhāradvājagotto brāhmaṇo kira samaṇassa gotamassa santike agārasmā anagāriyaṁ pabbajito"ti kupito anattamano yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā bhagavantaṁ asabbhāhi pharusāhi vācāhi akkosati paribhāsati.
Evaṁ vutte, bhagavā tuṇhī ahosi. Atha kho asurindakabhāradvājo brāhmaṇo bhagavantaṁ etadavoca: "jitosi, samaṇa, jitosi, samaṇā"ti.
2"Jayaṁ ve maññati bālo,
vācāya pharusaṁ bhaṇaṁ;
Jayañcevassa taṁ hoti,
yā titikkhā vijānato.
3Tasseva tena pāpiyo,
yo kuddhaṁ paṭikujjhati;
Kuddhaṁ appaṭikujjhanto,
saṅgāmaṁ jeti dujjayaṁ.
4Ubhinnamatthaṁ carati,
attano ca parassa ca;
Paraṁ saṅkupitaṁ ñatvā,
yo sato upasammati.
5Ubhinnaṁ tikicchantānaṁ,
attano ca parassa ca;
Janā maññanti bāloti,
ye dhammassa akovidā"ti.
6Evaṁ vutte, asurindakabhāradvājo brāhmaṇo bhagavantaṁ etadavoca: "Abhikkantaṁ, bho gotama … pe … abbhaññāsi. Aññataro ca panāyasmā bhāradvājo arahataṁ ahosīti.