Devaputtasaṁyutta 3

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Chapter One

With Māgha

1 At Sāvatthī.

Then, late at night, the glorious godling Māgha, lighting up the entire Jeta’s Grove, went up to the Buddha, bowed, stood to one side, and addressed the Buddha in verse:

2 “When what is slain do you sleep at ease?

When what is slain is there no sorrow?

What is the one thing

whose killing you approve?”

3 “When anger’s slain you sleep at ease.

When anger’s slain there is no sorrow.

Anger has a poisonous root

and a sweet tip, O Smiter of the Constrictor.

The noble ones praise its killing,

for when it’s slain there is no sorrow.”