Aṇḍabhārīsutta

Suttapiṭaka · Saṁyuttanikāya · Nidānavaggasaṁyutta · Vol. 16 · Section 649

[649] "Here, friend, as I was descending from Mount Gijjhakūṭa, I saw a man with testicles the size of pots (kumbhaṇḍa) moving through the air. Even as he went along, he went having hoisted those testicles onto his shoulders; even when he sat down, he sat upon those very testicles. Vultures, crows, and hawks, swooping down upon him again and again, tore at him and plucked him apart; and he, it is said, uttered cries of anguish." "Bhikkhus, that being was a corrupt village magistrate (gāmakūṭa) in this very Rājagaha." The tenth. The first chapter, the first. Its summary (uddāna): The skeleton, the piece of flesh — both were cattle-butchers;³ the lump — the fowler;⁴ the flayed one — the sheep-butcher; the sword [⁵] — the pig-butcher; the spear; the arrow [⁵] — the torturer; the needle — the charioteer; and he who shall be sewn⁶ — he indeed was the slanderer;¹ the bearer of testicles was the corrupt village magistrate.⁷ __________ #¹ Ma., Yu.: sūcako. ² Ma.: gāmakūṭako. ³ Ma., Yu.: gāvaghātakā. ⁴ Yu.: piṇḍasākuṇiyaṃ. #⁵ Yu.: ca. ⁶ Ma., Yu.: sabbiyati. ⁷ Yu.: ... cāti. The second chapter, the second.

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.