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### Samyutta Nikaya I.71

# Ghatva Sutta

# Having Killed

Translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
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As she was standing to one side, a devata recited this verse to the Blessed One:

> Having killed what
> do you sleep in ease?
> Having killed what
> do you not grieve?
> Of the slaying
> of what one thing
> does Gotama approve?

[The Buddha:]

> Having killed anger
> you sleep in ease.
> Having killed anger
> you do not grieve.
> The noble ones praise
> the slaying of anger
> -- with its honeyed crest
> & poison root --
> for having killed it
> you do not grieve.

Revised: Sun 6 January 2002