Mahaparinibbanasuttam (DN 16) - Ancient Buddhist Texts

The Third Chapter for Recitation - 136
atha tatiyakaṁ adhivāseyya.
but would have accepted it on the third occasion.
Tasmātih’ Ānanda tuyhevetaṁ dukkaṭaṁ tuyhevetaṁ aparaddhaṁ.
So, Ānanda, there is this wrong-doing for you, there is this fault for you.
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Na nu etaṁ Ānanda mayā paṭikacceva akkhātaṁ:
Were you not warned by me when I declared:
‘Sabbeheva piyehi manāpehi nānābhāvo vinābhāvo aññathābhāvo’?
‘There is alteration in, separation from, and changeability in all that is dear and
appealing’? 154
Taṁ kutettha Ānanda labbhā yaṁ taṁ,
How can it be otherwise, Ānanda, for that which is obtained,
jātaṁ bhūtaṁ saṅkhataṁ palokadhammaṁ?
born, become, conditioned, subject to dissolution?
‘Taṁ vata mā palujjī’ ti netaṁ ṭhānaṁ vijjati.
It is not possible (to say) this: ‘It should not dissolve’.
Yaṁ kho panetaṁ Ānanda Tathāgatena cattaṁ vantaṁ muttaṁ pahīnaṁ,
But this has been relinquished, cast out, let loose, abandoned by the Realised One,
paṭinissaṭṭhaṁ ossaṭṭho āyusaṅkhāro:
forsaken, the life-process that has been given up.
Ekaṁsena vācā Tathāgatena bhāsitā:
For sure this word was spoken by the Realised One:
‘Na ciraṁ Tathāgatassa Parinibbānaṁ bhavissati,
‘Not long now there will be the Realised One’s Final Emancipation,
ito tiṇṇaṁ māsānaṁ accayena Tathāgato parinibbāyissatī.’ ti
after the passing of three months the Realised One will attain Final Emancipation.’
Tañ-ca Tathāgato jīvitahetu puna paccāgamissatī ti netaṁ ṭhānaṁ vijjati.
The Realised One cannot for the sake of life go back on that, it is not possible.
154 As far as I can see outside of this context this warning only appears in two other places, once
towards the end of the Mahāsuddasanasuttaṁ (DN 17), and also in the
Abhiṇhapaccavekkhitabbaṭhānasuttaṁ (AN Bk 5.57).