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Mahaparinibbanasuttam (DN 16) - Ancient Buddhist Texts

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Udāhu ekacce abbhaññiṁsu?<br />

Or, have some understood?<br />

Udāhu ekacce na abbhaññiṁsu?’ ti<br />

Or, have some not understood?’<br />

Dhammaṁ te Subhadda desissāmi,<br />

I will teach the Teaching to you, Subhadda,<br />

The Fifth Chapter for Recitation - 206<br />

taṁ suṇāhi sādhukaṁ manasikarohi bhāsissāmī.” ti<br />

listen to it, apply your mind well, and I will speak.”<br />

“Evaṁ Bhante,” ti kho Subhaddo paribbājako Bhagavato paccassosi,<br />

“Very well, reverend Sir,” the wanderer Subhadda replied to the Gracious One,<br />

Bhagavā etad-avoca:<br />

and the Gracious One said this:<br />

“Yasmiṁ kho Subhadda Dhammavinaye Ariyo Aṭṭhaṅgiko Maggo na upalabbhati<br />

“Wherever, Subhadda, the Noble Eightfold Path is not found in a Teaching and<br />

Discipline<br />

samaṇo pi tattha na upalabbhati,<br />

there a (true) ascetic is not found, 238<br />

dutiyo pi tattha samaṇo na upalabbhati,<br />

there a second (true) ascetic is not found,<br />

tatiyo pi tattha samaṇo na upalabbhati,<br />

there a third (true) ascetic is not found,<br />

catuttho pi tattha samaṇo na upalabbhati.<br />

there a fourth (true) ascetic is not found.<br />

Yasmiñ-ca kho Subhadda Dhammavinaye Ariyo Aṭṭhaṅgiko Maggo upalabbhati<br />

But wherever, Subhadda, the Noble Eightfold Path is found in a Teaching and Discipline<br />

samaṇo pi tattha upalabbhati,<br />

there a (true) ascetic is found,<br />

dutiyo pi tattha samaṇo upalabbhati,<br />

there a second (true) ascetic is found,<br />

238 A (true) ascetic here refers to one who has reached the first path of Awakening, and is an<br />

Ariya Sotāpanna. Similarly with the second (Sakadāgāmī) third (Anāgāmī), and fourth (Arahatta)<br />

ascetics below.

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