10. Kavi Sutta
Discourse on the Poet

Jara Vagga, Devata Samyutta
Sagatha Vagga Samyutta, Samyutta Nikaya, Suttanta Pitaka

SOURCE: "FIVE SAMYUTTAS FROM SAGATHAVAGGA SAMYUTTA"
Translated by U Tin U (Myaung), Yangon
Edited by the Editorial Committee, Burma (Myanmar) Tipitaka Association, 1998

10. Kavi Sutta
Discourse on the Poet

      60. (The deva said:)

      "What is the basis of verse?

      What gives expression to verse?

      On what does verse depend?

      What is the source of verse?"

      (The Bhagava said:)

      "Prosody is the basis of verse.

      Verse is expressed in syllables.

      Verse depends on terms.

      The poet is the source of verse."


End of the Kavi Sutta.

the tenth in this vagga.

End of the Jan Vagga, the sixth in this samyutta.



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