Connected Discourses 29.3

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1. Linked Discourses 29.3
2. 1. Dragons
3. Sabbath
4. At one time the Buddha was staying near Sāvatthī in Jeta’s Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika’s monastery.
5. Then a mendicant went up to the Buddha, sat down to one side, and said to him:
6. “Sir, what is the cause, what is the reason why some egg-born dragons keep the sabbath, having transformed their bodies?”
7. “Mendicant, it’s when some egg-born dragons think:
8. ‘In the past we did both kinds of deeds by body, speech, and mind.
9. When the body broke up, after death, we were reborn in the company of the egg-born dragons.
10. If today we do good things by body, speech, and mind, when the body breaks up, after death, we may be reborn in a good place, a heavenly realm.
11. Come, let us do good things by way of body, speech, and mind.’
12. This is the cause, this is the reason why some egg-born dragons keep the sabbath, having transformed their bodies.”