1:5 With the Smith Chunda

Cunda the smith's son

83“I ask the muni, one of abundant wisdom,”
“the Buddha, lord of the Dhamma, rid of craving,
supreme among bipeds, the most excellent of trainers:
how many ascetics are there in the world? Please tell me this.” (1)

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Said the Blessed One to Chunda [17]

84“There are four kinds of ascetics; there is no fifth,
“Being asked in person, let me explain them to you:
the conqueror of the path,I follow Pj II’s explanation of maggajina, as against Norman’s suggestion that jina is derived from jña. Maggena sabbakilese vijitāvī. Norman (GD 174–75) takes maggajino to be from Skt mārga-jña and thus to be equivalent to maggaññū, with the svarabhakti vowel added. However, I find Pj II’s explanation cogent enough to accept “conqueror” as the intended sense. In Sn alone, the Buddha is referred to as jina at 372a, 379b, 697d, 698a, and 996a. Maggajino occurs at Therigata 1230, glossed at Th-a III 191,32 with maggena vijitakileso. The Chinese versions of the sutta, at T I 18b16, T I 167c21, and T I 183b10 all render the first ascetic as 道殊勝, which could mean “one victorious over the path,” hence corresponding to maggajino. The fragmentary Skt version is ambivalent, with mārgajñaḥ (= Pāli maggaññū) in the initial enumeration of types (= verse 84) but mārgajinaṃ in the questions about the types (= verse 85). the teacher of the path,
the one who lives on the path, and the defiler of the path.” (2)

(Said Cunda the smith’s son).

85“Whom do the buddhas call a conqueror of the path?”
“How is one without equal as a shower of the path?I read with Be and Ce maggakkhāyī, as against Ee maggajjhāyī. See GD 175.
Being asked, tell me about one who lives on the path,
and explain to me the defiler of the path.” (3)

86. “One who has crossed over perplexity, free of inner darts,
delighted with nibbāna, without any greed;
the guide of this world together with its devas:
the buddhas call the impartial one a conqueror of the path. (4)

87“One here who, having known the supreme as supreme,
explains and analyzes the Dhamma right here,
the muni who has cut off doubt, without impulse,
is the second bhikkhu,Dutiyaṃ bhikkhunaṃ. I take this as an accusative singular. Bhikkhunaṃ can be taken as either genitive plural (= bhikkhūnaṃ) or accusative singular. I treat it as accusative singular. Commenting on dutiyaṃ bhikkhunaṃ, Norman (at GD 176) says that since bhikkhunaṃ “is certainly accusative singular in verse 513, it is probably the same here.” whom they call a teacher of the path. (5)

88“The one on the well-taught trail of the Dhamma
who lives on the path, controlled and mindful,
resorting to blameless ways of conduct,
is the third bhikkhu, whom they call one living on the path. (6)

89“Having taken on the dress of the disciplined,
one who is brazen, a corrupter of families, impudent,
hypocritical, uncontrolled, chaff,
living as a dissembler: he is the defiler of the path. (7)

90“When a householder who is learned, wise,
a noble disciple, has penetrated these, [18]
since he knows, ‘They are not all like him,’I take the correct reading to be n’etādisā ti (< na + etādisā), as in the lemma of Pj II (Ee). Ee has ne ‘tādisā’ ti, with ne an accusative object. Be has netādisā ti, which is ambiguous, and Ce te tādisā ti, which agrees in sense with Ee. I take the correct reading to be n’etādisā ti (< na + etādisā), as in the lemma of Pj II (Ee). The Skt supports this with its reading sarve nāpy evaṃvidhā bhavanti, where na is the negation and evaṃvidhā corresponds to etādisā..
on seeing such, he does not forsake his faith.On the basis of the Skt parallel, I would change the nominative saddhā to accusative saddhaṃ.
For how could one equate them:
the undefiled with the defiled, the pure with the impure?” (8)

Cundasutta

(iti cundo kammāraputto):

83"Pucchāmi muniṁ pahūtapaññaṁ,
Buddhaṁ dhammassāmiṁ vītataṇhaṁ;
Dvipaduttamaṁ sārathīnaṁ pavaraṁ,
Kati loke samaṇā tadiṅgha brūhi".

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(cundāti bhagavā):

84 "Caturo samaṇā na pañcamatthi,
Te te āvikaromi sakkhipuṭṭho;
Maggajino maggadesako ca,
Magge jīvati yo ca maggadūsī".

(iti cundo kammāraputto):

85 "Kaṁ maggajinaṁ vadanti buddhā,
Maggakkhāyī kathaṁ atulyo hoti;
Magge jīvati me brūhi puṭṭho,
Atha me āvikarohi maggadūsiṁ".

86 "Yo tiṇṇakathaṅkatho visallo,
Nibbānābhirato anānugiddho;
Lokassa sadevakassa netā,
Tādiṁ maggajinaṁ vadanti buddhā.

87 Paramaṁ paramanti yodha ñatvā,
Akkhāti vibhajate idheva dhammaṁ;
Taṁ kaṅkhachidaṁ muniṁ anejaṁ,
Dutiyaṁ bhikkhunamāhu maggadesiṁ.

88 Yo dhammapade sudesite,
Magge jīvati saññato satīmā;
Anavajjapadāni sevamāno,
Tatiyaṁ bhikkhunamāhu maggajīviṁ.

89 Chadanaṁ katvāna subbatānaṁ,
Pakkhandī kuladūsako pagabbho;
Māyāvī asaññato palāpo,
Patirūpena caraṁ sa maggadūsī.

90 Ete ca paṭivijjhi yo gahaṭṭho,
Sutavā ariyasāvako sapañño;
Sabbe netādisāti ñatvā,
Iti disvā na hāpeti tassa saddhā;
Kathaṁ hi duṭṭhena asampaduṭṭhaṁ,
Suddhaṁ asuddhena samaṁ kareyyā"ti.

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Cundasuttaṁ pañcamaṁ.