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Sopi satasahassagghanake nhānakoṭṭhake satasahassagghanake phalake nisīditvā soḷasahi gandhodakaghaṭehi nhatvā taṃ sīhapañjaraṃ vivaritvā tasmiṃ pallaṅke nisīdi. Athassa tasmiṃ āsittakūpadhāne taṃ pātiṃ ṭhapetvā satasahassagghanakaṃ bhojanaṃ vaḍḍhesuṃ. So nāṭakaparivuto evarūpāya sampattiyā taṃ bhojanaṃ bhuñjati. Aparena samayena eko gāmikamanusso attano paribbayāharaṇatthaṃ dāruādīni yānake pakkhipitvā nagaraṃ gantvā sahāyakassa gehe nivāsaṃ gaṇhi. Tadā pana puṇṇamadivaso hoti. ‘‘Gandhaseṭṭhino bhuñjanalīḷaṃ olokentū’’ti nagare bheriṃ carāpesi. Atha naṃ sahāyako āha – ‘‘samma, gandhaseṭṭhino te bhuñjanalīḷaṃ diṭṭhapubba’’nti. ‘‘Na diṭṭhapubbaṃ, sammā’’ti. ‘‘Tena hi ehi, gacchāma, ayaṃ nagare bherī carati, etassa mahāsampattiṃ passāmā’’ti nagaravāsī janapadavāsiṃ gahetvā agamāsi. Mahājanopi mañcātimañce abhiruhitvā passati. Gāmavāsī bhattagandhaṃ ghāyitvāva nagaravāsiṃ āha – ‘‘mayhaṃ etāya pātiyā bhattapiṇḍe pipāsā jātā’’ti. Samma, mā etaṃ patthayi, na sakkā laddhunti. Samma, alabhanto na jīvissāmīti. So taṃ paṭibāhituṃ asakkonto parisapariyante ṭhatvā ‘‘paṇamāmi te, sāmī’’ti tikkhattuṃ mahāsaddaṃ nicchāretvā ‘‘ko eso’’ti vutte ahaṃ, sāmīti. ‘‘Kimeta’’nti. ‘‘Ayaṃ eko gāmavāsī tumhākaṃ pātiyaṃ bhattapiṇḍe pipāsaṃ upādesi, ekaṃ bhattapiṇḍaṃ dāpethā’’ti. ‘‘Na sakkā laddhu’’nti. ‘‘Kiṃ, samma, sutaṃ te’’ti? ‘‘Sutaṃ me, apica labhanto jīvissāmi, alabhantassa me maraṇaṃ bhavissatī’’ti. So punapi viravi – ‘‘ayaṃ kira, sāmi, alabhanto marissati, jīvitamassa dethā’’ti. Ambho bhattapiṇḍo nāma satampi agghati, satadvayampi agghati. Yo yo yācati, tassa tassa dadamāno ahaṃ kiṃ bhuñjissāmīti? Sāmi, ayaṃ alabhanto marissati, jīvitamassa dethāti. Na sakkāva mudhā laddhuṃ, yadi pana alabhanto na jīvati, tīṇi saṃvaccharāni mama gehe bhatiṃ karotu, evamassa bhattapātiṃ dāpessāmīti. Gāmavāsī taṃ sutvā ‘‘evaṃ hotu, sammā’’ti sahāyakaṃ vatvā puttadāraṃ pahāya ‘‘bhattapātiatthāya tīṇi saṃvaccharāni bhatiṃ karissāmī’’ti seṭṭhissa gehaṃ pāvisi. So bhatiṃ karonto sabbakiccāni sakkaccaṃ akāsi. Gehe vā araññe vā rattiṃ vā divā vā sabbāni kattabbakammāni katāneva paññāyiṃsu. ‘‘Bhattabhatiko’’ti ca vutte sakalanagarepi paññāyi. Athassa divase paripuṇṇe bhattaveyyāvaṭiko ‘‘bhattabhatikassa, sāmi, divaso puṇṇo, dukkaraṃ tena kataṃ tīṇi saṃvaccharāni bhatiṃ karontena, ekampi kammaṃ na kopitapubba’’nti āha. > A short time afterwards a certain villager came to the city with a cart filled with firewood and so forth, and for the purpose of sparing himself unnecessary expense found lodging in the house of a friend of his. Now it so happened that it was the day of full moon; and on this day men went about the city beating drums and crying out, "Let all behold the splendor in which the treasurer Gandha takes his meals." The villager's friend said to him, "Have you ever seen the splendor in which the treasurer Gandha takes his meals?" "No, my friend," said the villager. "Well then, come, let us go; there is the drum making the rounds of the city; we shall see great splendor and magnificence." So the city man took the countryman with him, and they went out together. The populace climbed on beds and couches and looked on. > — Eugene Watson Burlingame 1921, Buddhist Legends (Harvard Oriental Series 28–30) > Just then the villager smelt the savor of food and said to the city man, "I feel thirsty for that bowl of rice." "Friend, do not wish for that; you could never get it." "Friend, if I do not get it, I shall not be able to live any longer.” The city man, unable to restrain the villager, standing in the outer circle of the crowd, cried out thrice with a loud voice, “I bow myself before you, master.” “Who is that?” said the treasurer. “It is I, master.” “What is the matter?” “There is a certain villager here who thirsts for the rice in your bowl. Pray give him just a morsel of rice.” “He cannot have it.” “Friend, did you hear what he said?” “Yes, I heard. If I can have some of the rice, I can live; but if I cannot have it, I shall surely die.” > — Eugene Watson Burlingame 1921, Buddhist Legends (Harvard Oriental Series 28–30) > Thereupon the city man cried out again with a loud voice, “Master, this villager says that if he cannot have some of your rice, he will surely die. Spare his life, I pray you.” “Sirrah, every morsel of rice is worth a hundred pieces of money, two hundred pieces of money. If I give rice to everyone who asks for it, what shall I have to eat myself?” “Master, if this villager cannot have some of your rice, he will die. Spare his life, I pray you.” “He cannot have it. However, if it be really true that unless he receives some of the rice he will die, let him work for hire for me for the space of three years. If he will do that, I will let him have the bowl of rice.” > — Eugene Watson Burlingame 1921, Buddhist Legends (Harvard Oriental Series 28–30) > When the villager heard that, he said to his friend, “So be it, friend.” Then he took leave of son and wife, saying to them, “I intend to work for hire for three years in order to obtain this bowl of rice.” And having so said, he entered the treasurer’s house. During his term of service he performed all of his duties most faithfully; whether in the house or in the forest, whether by day or by night, all the duties which fell to him were performed just as they should have been. He became known to all the residents of the city as Food-earner, Bhattabhatika. > — Eugene Watson Burlingame 1921, Buddhist Legends (Harvard Oriental Series 28–30) > When his term of service was completed, the treasurer’s steward said to his master, “Bhattabhatika’s term of service is now completed; it was a difficult task he performed for the space of three years in working for hire; not a single piece of work he undertook was done amiss.” Thereupon the treasurer gave him two thousand pieces of money for his evening meal and a thousand pieces of money for his breakfast, making three thousand pieces of money in all. And he gave orders to all the members of his household, except his own dear wife Cintāmaṇi, to wait on that day upon Bhattabhatika only, saying, “To-day you are to render precisely the same attentions to him as you have been accustomed to render to me.” So saying, he bestowed his own state upon Bhattabhatika. > — Eugene Watson Burlingame 1921, Buddhist Legends (Harvard Oriental Series 28–30) - [Previous: 10.11.p2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada!dhammapadatthakatha.10.11.p2) - [Next: 10.11.p4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada!dhammapadatthakatha.10.11.p4) - [Up: 10.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada!dhammapadatthakatha.10.11) ## Translations (1) - [Buddhist Legends (Harvard Oriental Series 28–30)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada!dhammapadatthakatha~en-burlingame.10.11.p9) — Eugene Watson Burlingame 1921, English ## Linked texts (1) - [Dhammapada](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada.145) — Pāli --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada!dhammapadatthakatha.10.11.p3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada!dhammapadatthakatha.10.11.p3) · Pramāṇa