Verse 2. Sutra Three - Sundari

Relying on their expertise, how can they abandon it,

For they wish with ease to depart from this world,

Unperturbed they cherish supreme virtue, 

The making of rules they desire, whilst some [people] they criticise.

以行當那捨，

Yǐ hángdang nà shě,
棄世欲自在，
qì shì yù zìzài,
抱至德不亂，
bào zhì dé bù luàn,
制欲人所詰。

Parallel: The Pali Sutta Nipata, Atthakavagga - Chap. 3, Verse 781

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Verse 1. Sutra Three - Sundari

Some wrong thinking ones teach deficiently,

Confident, truth minded ones speak virtuously,

When arguments come-around the noble one does [not] get involved,

Having given up good and evil, the [sage] is not concerned.


亦毀於少言，
Yì huǐ yú shǎo yán,
多言亦得毀，
duō yán yì dé huǐ,
亦毀於忠言，　
yì huǐ yú zhōngyán, 　
世惡無不毀。
shì è wú bù huǐ.

Parallel: The Pali Sutta Nipata, Atthakavagga - Chap. 3, Verse 780

Discussion: The negative is used in the Pali in the third line. Muni (sage) appears in the fourth line in the Pali parallel.

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Title of Sutra Three from Yì Zú Jīng

Sutra Three - Sundari

須陀利經第三

xū tuó lì jīng dì sān

Parallel: The Pali Sutta Nipata, Atthakavagga, Dutthattaksutta - Chapter 3. The Corrupt

Discussion: The title of the sutra refers to the prose story where a woman called Sundari was the the victim of the Brahmans who’s had conspired to discredit the Buddha and his followers by killing her. Before this however she had been told by them to visit the Buddha daily. Soon after they killed her and buried her in the the grounds of Sravasti, after which the people thinking the buddha and his followers had committed the crime refused to give them alms.
Eventually the people released the Buddha and his followers could not have done such a thing based on there good reputation. Thereafter, one of the Brahmans informs on the other Brahmans confessing they had committed the crime and so the Buddha's reputation was fully restored with a visit from King Pasenadi along with apologies.

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