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Exalted Utterances - Udāna (KN 3)

An English translation of this important collection of eighty discourses covering many themes and biographical details in the Buddha’s teaching.

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2: Mucalindavaggo - 31<br />

See how one who has something is troubled, 41<br />

He is a person who is in a state of bondage in regard to (other)<br />

people.”<br />

2.6 The Discourse about the Pregnant Woman<br />

Thus I heard: at one time the Gracious One was dwelling near Sāvatthī,<br />

in Jeta's Wood, at Anāthapiṇḍika's monastery.<br />

Then at that time a certain wanderer's young brāhmaṇa wife, was<br />

pregnant and about to give birth. Then that female wanderer said this to<br />

that wanderer: “Please go, brāhmaṇa, and bring oil which can be (used)<br />

for my delivery.”<br />

When that was said that wanderer said this to that female wanderer:<br />

“But from where, dear lady, can I bring oil?”<br />

Then for a second time that female wanderer said this to that wanderer:<br />

“Please go, brāhmaṇa, and bring oil which can be (used) for my<br />

delivery.”<br />

41 Sakiñcanaṁ, one who has something, is regularly given ethical sense in the<br />

Commentaries (beginning with Niddesa), as meaning one who has some<br />

defilement.

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