Gahabavagga

Suttapiṭaka · Majjhimanikāya · Vol. 13 · Section 10

[10] "Bhikkhus, what is the individual who torments himself (attantapa) and is devoted to the practice of tormenting himself, and who also torments others (parantapa) and is devoted to the practice of tormenting others? Bhikkhus, here a certain individual is a head-anointed khattiya king or a brahmin of great wealth. Having had a new ceremonial hall (santhāgāra) built to the east of the city, having shaved off his hair and beard, having clothed himself in a rough antelope hide, having anointed his body with ghee and oil, and scratching his back with a deer's horn, he enters the new ceremonial hall together with his chief queen and his brahmin high priest (purohita). There he makes his bed upon the bare, uncovered ground smeared with fresh cow dung. The king sustains himself on whatever milk there is in the first teat of a single cow with a calf of like appearance; on whatever milk there is in the second teat the chief queen sustains herself; on whatever milk there is in the third teat the brahmin high priest sustains himself; with whatever milk there is in the fourth teat he makes offering to the fire; on what remains the calf sustains itself. He speaks thus: 'Let so many bulls be slain for the sacrifice; let so many bullocks be slain for the sacrifice; let so many heifers be slain for the sacrifice; let so many goats be slain for the sacrifice; let so many rams be slain for the sacrifice; let so many horses be slain for the sacrifice; let so many trees be felled for the sacrificial posts; let so much grass be mown for the strewing.' And those who are his slaves, or messengers, or workmen — they too, threatened by the rod, threatened by fear, with tearful faces, weeping, carry out the preparations. This, bhikkhus, is called the individual who torments himself and is devoted to the practice of tormenting himself, and who torments others and is devoted to the practice of tormenting others."

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.

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