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Yathā te khameyya tathā naṃ byākareyyāsi. > “Well then, chieftain, I’ll ask you about this in return, and you can answer as you like. > — With Pāyāsi ### [7.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.23.7.2) Taṃ kiṃ maññasi, rājañña, > What do you think, chieftain? > — With Pāyāsi ### [7.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.23.7.3) idha te purisā coraṃ āgucāriṃ gahetvā dasseyyuṃ: > Suppose they were to arrest a bandit, a criminal and present him to you, saying, > — With Pāyāsi ### [7.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.23.7.4) ‘ayaṃ te, bhante, coro āgucārī; > ‘Sir, this is a bandit, a criminal. > — With Pāyāsi ### [7.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.23.7.5) imassa yaṃ icchasi, taṃ daṇḍaṃ paṇehī’ti. > Punish him as you will.’ > — With Pāyāsi ### [7.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.23.7.6) Te tvaṃ evaṃ vadeyyāsi: > Then you’d say to them, > — With Pāyāsi ### [7.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.23.7.7) ‘tena hi, bho, imaṃ purisaṃ daḷhāya rajjuyā pacchābāhaṃ gāḷhabandhanaṃ bandhitvā khuramuṇḍaṃ karitvā kharassarena paṇavena rathikāya rathikaṃ siṅghāṭakena siṅghāṭakaṃ parinetvā dakkhiṇena dvārena nikkhamitvā dakkhiṇato nagarassa āghātane sīsaṃ chindathā’ti. > ‘Well then, my men, tie this man’s arms tightly behind his back with a strong rope. Shave his head and march him from street to street and square to square to the beating of a harsh drum. Then take him out the south gate and there, at the place of execution to the south of the city, chop off his head.’ > — With Pāyāsi ### [7.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.23.7.8) Te ‘sādhū’ti paṭissutvā taṃ purisaṃ daḷhāya rajjuyā pacchābāhaṃ gāḷhabandhanaṃ bandhitvā khuramuṇḍaṃ karitvā kharassarena paṇavena rathikāya rathikaṃ siṅghāṭakena siṅghāṭakaṃ parinetvā dakkhiṇena dvārena nikkhamitvā dakkhiṇato nagarassa āghātane nisīdāpeyyuṃ. > Saying, ‘Good,’ they’d do as they were told, sitting him down at the place of execution. > — With Pāyāsi ### [7.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.23.7.9) Labheyya nu kho so coro coraghātesu: > Could that bandit get the executioners to wait, saying, > — With Pāyāsi ### [7.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.23.7.10) ‘āgamentu tāva bhavanto coraghātā, amukasmiṃ me gāme vā nigame vā mittāmaccā ñātisālohitā, yāvāhaṃ tesaṃ uddisitvā āgacchāmī’ti, udāhu vippalapantasseva coraghātā sīsaṃ chindeyyun”ti? > ‘Please, good executioners! I have friends and colleagues, relatives and kin in such-and-such village or town. Wait until I’ve visited them, then I’ll come back’? Or would they just chop off his head as he prattled on?” > — With Pāyāsi ### [7.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.23.7.11) “Na hi so, bho kassapa, coro labheyya coraghātesu: ### [7.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.23.7.12) ‘āgamentu tāva bhavanto coraghātā amukasmiṃ me gāme vā nigame vā mittāmaccā ñātisālohitā, yāvāhaṃ tesaṃ uddisitvā āgacchāmī’ti. ### [7.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.23.7.13) Atha kho naṃ vippalapantasseva coraghātā sīsaṃ chindeyyun”ti. > “They’d just chop off his head.” > — With Pāyāsi ### [7.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.23.7.14) “So hi nāma, rājañña, coro manusso manussabhūtesu coraghātesu na labhissati: > “So even a human bandit couldn’t get his human executioners to stay his execution. > — With Pāyāsi ### [7.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.23.7.15) ‘āgamentu tāva bhavanto coraghātā, amukasmiṃ me gāme vā nigame vā mittāmaccā ñātisālohitā, yāvāhaṃ tesaṃ uddisitvā āgacchāmī’ti. ### [7.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.23.7.16) Kiṃ pana te mittāmaccā ñātisālohitā pāṇātipātī adinnādāyī kāmesumicchācārī musāvādī pisuṇavācā pharusavācā samphappalāpī abhijjhālū byāpannacittā micchādiṭṭhī, te kāyassa bhedā paraṃ maraṇā apāyaṃ duggatiṃ vinipātaṃ nirayaṃ upapannā labhissanti nirayapālesu: > What then of your friends and colleagues, relatives and kin who are reborn in a lower realm after doing bad things? Could they get the wardens of hell to wait, saying, > — With Pāyāsi ### [7.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.23.7.17) ‘āgamentu tāva bhavanto nirayapālā, yāva mayaṃ pāyāsissa rājaññassa gantvā ārocema: > ‘Please, good wardens of hell! Wait until I’ve gone to the chieftain Pāyāsi to tell him that > — With Pāyāsi ### [7.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.23.7.18) “itipi atthi paro loko, atthi sattā opapātikā, atthi sukatadukkaṭānaṃ kammānaṃ phalaṃ vipāko”’ti? > there is an afterlife, there are beings reborn spontaneously, and there is a fruit or result of good and bad deeds’? > — With Pāyāsi ### [7.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.23.7.19) Imināpi kho te, rājañña, pariyāyena evaṃ hotu: > By this method, too, it ought to be proven that > — With Pāyāsi ### [7.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.23.7.20) ‘itipi atthi paro loko, atthi sattā opapātikā, atthi sukatadukkaṭānaṃ kammānaṃ phalaṃ vipāko’”ti. > there is an afterlife, there are beings reborn spontaneously, and there is a fruit or result of good and bad deeds.” > — With Pāyāsi ## Translations (3) - [Razgovor sa Pāyāsijem](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.23~sr-brankokovacevic.7.1) — sr - [With Pāyāsi](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.23~en-sujato.7.1) — English - [Mit Pāyāsi](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.23~de-sabbamitta.7.1) — German ## Commentaries (1) - [Sumaṅgalavilāsinī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha!sumangalavilasini.23.413) — Buddhaghosa, Pāli ## Linked texts (3) - [中阿含經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.madhyamagama*zh-sanghadeva.71.23) — Classical Chinese - [長阿含經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.dirghagama*zh-buddhayasas.7.22) — Classical Chinese - [大正句王經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.madhyama.payasisutra*zh-dharmabhadra.1.11) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.23.7.1-20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.23.7.1-20) · Pramāṇa