This file is part of the Bieyi za ahan jing 別譯雜阿含經-Project at Dharma Drum Buddhist College 法鼓佛教研修學院. Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange 蔣經國國際學術交流基金會 Chung-hwa Institute for Buddhist Studies 中華佛學研究所. Dharma Drum Buddhist College 法鼓佛教研修學院. Marcus Bingenheimer Editing & Encoding: Jung Hsi-chin 戎錫琴, Shi Zhanghui 釋章慧, Shu Huiyu 疏惠郁, Wang Ruixiang 王瑞鄉, Chueh Hui-chen 闕慧貞 Programming Jen Jou Hung 洪振洲, Marcus Bingenheimer

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All texts used with permission. Copyright for the Chinese text lies with the Chinese Buddhist Electronic Text Association (CBETA). Copyright for the Pāli text lies with the Vipassana Research Institute. Copyright for the Sanskrit text lies with Fumio Enomoto. Copyright for the English text lies with Marcus Bingenheimer. The Tibetan and Manchu texts are in the public realm. The digital edition itself is made available under the LGPL.

If Chinese, the text below is based on the Taishō text from the CBETA-Database (Version Feb.2006). If Pāli, the text base is the VRI Chaṭṭa Saṅgāyana edition (ver.3). If Sanskrit the text base is Enomoto, Fumio 榎本文雄 (1994): A comprehensive study of the Chinese Saṃyuktāgama: Indic texts corresponding to the Chinese Saṃyuktāgama as found in the Sarvāstivāda-Mūlasarvāstivāda literature. Kyoto: Kacho Junior College and other scholarly publications (as referenced). English translations by Marcus Bingenheimer.

This file has been created in the project "A Digital Comparative Edition of the Bieyi za ahan jing" conducted at the Chung-hwa Institute for Buddhist Studies 中華佛學研究所 and the Dharma Drum Buddhist College 法鼓佛教研修學院. The project was funded by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange 蔣經國國際學術交流基金會. The aim of the project was to produce a comparative digital edition and partial translation of the 364 sutras of the BZA and their parallels. In the original interface, the texts were kept in an eXist database and are realized via XQuery and XSLT as HTML for the online user. The project lasted from 2005-2009.

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BZA: New Punctuation. Markup of person and place names. Verse and prose. References to the print edition (Taishō). Corrected characters (according to CBETA).

ZA: New Punctuation. Verse and prose. References to the print edition (Taishō). Markup of person and place names.

Other Chinese: Parallel and not-parallel divisions regarding the BZA marked. Verse and Prose.

Pāli, Sanskrit, Tibetan & others: Parallel and not-parallel divisions regarding the BZA. Verse and Prose. Markup of person and place names. Variant readings.
Bahudhītarasuttaṃ

From the VRI Chaṭṭa Saṅgāyana edition. PTS: SN, I, 170. This is part of the text-cluster of BZA (T.100) sutra 093.

Ekaṃ samayaṃ bhagavā kosalesu viharati aññatarasmiṃ vanasaṇḍe.

Tena kho pana samayena aññatarassa bhāradvājagottassa brāhmaṇassa catuddasa balībaddā naṭṭhā honti. Atha kho bhāradvājagotto brāhmaṇo te balībadde gavesanto yena so vanasaṇḍo tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā addasa bhagavantaṃ tasmiṃ vanasaṇḍe nisinnaṃ pallaṅkaṃ ābhujitvā ujuṃ kāyaṃ paṇidhāya parimukhaṃ satiṃ upaṭṭhapetvā. Disvāna yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā bhagavato santike imā gāthāyo abhāsi–

“Na hi nūnimassa [nahanūnimassa (sī. syā. kaṃ.)] samaṇassa, balībaddā catuddasa; ajjasaṭṭhiṃ na dissanti, tenāyaṃ samaṇo sukhī. “Na hi nūnimassa samaṇassa, tilākhettasmi pāpakā; ekapaṇṇā dupaṇṇā [dvipaṇṇā (sī. pī.)] ca, tenāyaṃ samaṇo sukhī. “Na hi nūnimassa samaṇassa, tucchakoṭṭhasmi mūsikā; ussoḷhikāya naccanti, tenāyaṃ samaṇo sukhī. “Na hi nūnimassa samaṇassa, santhāro sattamāsiko; uppāṭakehi sañchanno, tenāyaṃ samaṇo sukhī. “Na hi nūnimassa samaṇassa, vidhavā satta dhītaro; ekaputtā duputtā [dviputtā (sī. pī.)] ca, tenāyaṃ samaṇo sukhī. “Na hi nūnimassa samaṇassa, piṅgalā tilakāhatā; sottaṃ pādena bodheti, tenāyaṃ samaṇo sukhī. “Na hi nūnimassa samaṇassa, paccūsamhi iṇāyikā; detha dethāti codenti, tenāyaṃ samaṇo sukhī”ti. “Na hi mayhaṃ brāhmaṇa, balībaddā catuddasa; ajjasaṭṭhiṃ na dissanti, tenāhaṃ brāhmaṇā sukhī. “Na hi mayhaṃ brāhmaṇa, tilākhettasmi pāpakā; ekapaṇṇā dupaṇṇā ca, tenāhaṃ brāhmaṇā sukhī. “Na hi mayhaṃ brāhmaṇa, tucchakoṭṭhasmi mūsikā; ussoḷhikāya naccanti, tenāhaṃ brāhmaṇā sukhī. “Na hi mayhaṃ brāhmaṇa, santhāro sattamāsiko; uppāṭakehi sañchanno, tenāhaṃ brāhmaṇā sukhī. “Na hi mayhaṃ brāhmaṇa, vidhavā satta dhītaro; ekaputtā duputtā ca, tenāhaṃ brāhmaṇā sukhī. “Na hi mayhaṃ brāhmaṇa, piṅgalā tilakāhatā; sottaṃ pādena bodheti, tenāhaṃ brāhmaṇā sukhī. “Na hi mayhaṃ brāhmaṇa, paccūsamhi iṇāyikā; detha dethāti codenti, tenāhaṃ brāhmaṇā sukhī”ti.

Evaṃ vutte, bhāradvājagotto brāhmaṇo bhagavantaṃ etadavoca– “abhikkantaṃ, bho gotama, abhikkantaṃ, bho gotama! Seyyathāpi, bho gotama, nikkujjitaṃ vā ukkujjeyya, paṭicchannaṃ vā vivareyya, mūḷhassa vā maggaṃ ācikkheyya, andhakāre vā telapajjotaṃ dhāreyya– cakkhumanto rūpāni dakkhantīti; evameva bhotā gotamena anekapariyāyena dhammo pakāsito. Esāhaṃ bhavantaṃ gotamaṃ saraṇaṃ gacchāmi dhammañca bhikkhusaṅghañca. Labheyyāhaṃ bhoto gotamassa santike pabbajjaṃ, labheyyaṃ upasampadan”ti.

Alattha kho bhāradvājagotto brāhmaṇo bhagavato santike pabbajjaṃ, alattha upasampadaṃ. Acirūpasampanno panāyasmā bhāradvājo eko vūpakaṭṭho appamatto ātāpī pahitatto viharanto nacirasseva– yassatthāya kulaputtā sammadeva agārasmā anagāriyaṃ pabbajanti, tadanuttaraṃ– brahmacariyapariyosānaṃ diṭṭheva dhamme sayaṃ abhiññā sacchikatvā upasampajja vihāsi. “Khīṇā jāti, vusitaṃ brahmacariyaṃ, kataṃ karaṇīyaṃ, nāparaṃ itthattāyā”ti abbhaññāsi. Aññataro ca panāyasmā bhāradvājo arahataṃ ahosī