Udāna, Exalted Utterances

3: Nandavaggo
Pabbato viya so ṭhito anejo,
He who stands unmoved like a mountain,
Sukhadukkhesu na vedhati sa bhikkhū” ti.
That monk does not shake in regard to pleasure and pain.”
Evaṁ me sutaṁ:
Thus I heard:
3-4: Sāriputtasuttaṁ (24)
The Discourse about Sāriputta
ekaṁ samayaṁ Bhagavā Sāvatthiyaṁ viharati,
at one time the Gracious One was dwelling near Sāvatthī,
Jetavane Anāthapiṇḍikassa ārāme.
in Jeta's Wood, at Anāthapiṇḍika's monastery.
Tena kho pana samayena āyasmā Sāriputto
Then at that time venerable Sāriputta
Bhagavato avidūre nisinno hoti,
was sitting not far away from the Gracious One,
pallaṅkaṁ ābhujitvā, ujuṁ kāyaṁ paṇidhāya,
after folding his legs crosswise, and setting his body straight,
parimukhaṁ satiṁ upaṭṭhapetvā. 103
and was attending to mindfulness at the front.
Addasā kho Bhagavā āyasmantaṁ Sāriputtaṁ avidūre nisinnaṁ, 104
The Gracious One saw that venerable Sāriputta was sitting not far away,
pallaṅkaṁ ābhujitvā, ujuṁ kāyaṁ paṇidhāya,
after folding his legs crosswise, and setting his body straight,
parimukhaṁ satiṁ upaṭṭhapetvā.
and was attending to mindfulness at the front.
Atha kho Bhagavā, etam-atthaṁ viditvā,
Then the Gracious One, having understood the significance of it,
tāyaṁ velāyaṁ imaṁ udānaṁ udānesi:
on that occasion uttered this exalted utterance:
103 The relative clauses, in the form of absolutives, appear after the finite verb in this construction, which
is sometimes mistranslated through taking the last of the absolutives as though it were the finite verb.
104 Although the auxilliary hoti is missing in the repetition, it has to be understood to give durative sense
to nisinnaṁ, otherwise we would have to understand the absolutives which follow as occuring before the
action of the finite verb.
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