MahÄkhandhako The Great Chapter - Ancient Buddhist Texts
MahÄkhandhako The Great Chapter - Ancient Buddhist Texts
MahÄkhandhako The Great Chapter - Ancient Buddhist Texts
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Great</strong> <strong>Chapter</strong> - 14<br />
Atha kho Bhagavā rattiyā paṭhamaṁ yāmaṁ,<br />
<strong>The</strong>n the Gracious One, for the first watch of the night,<br />
paṭiccasamuppādaṁ anulomapaṭilomaṁ manasākāsi:<br />
applied his mind thoroughly to conditional origination in forward and reverse<br />
order: 25<br />
“Avijjāpaccayā saṅkhārā,<br />
“Because of ignorance there are (volitional) processes,<br />
saṅkhārapaccayā viññāṇaṁ,<br />
because of (volitional) processes: consciousness,<br />
viññāṇapaccayā nāmarūpaṁ,<br />
because of consciousness: mind and body,<br />
nāmarūpapaccayā saḷāyatanaṁ,<br />
because of mind and body: the six sense spheres,<br />
saḷāyatanapaccayā phasso,<br />
because of the six sense spheres: contact,<br />
phassapaccayā vedanā,<br />
because of contact: feeling,<br />
vedanāpaccayā taṇhā,<br />
because of feeling: craving,<br />
taṇhāpaccayā upādānaṁ,<br />
because of craving: attachment,<br />
upādānapaccayā bhavo,<br />
because of attachment: continuation,<br />
bhavapaccayā jāti,<br />
because of continuation: birth,<br />
jātipaccayā jarāmaraṇaṁ,<br />
because of birth: old age, death,<br />
sokaparidevadukkhadomanassupāyāsā sambhavanti,<br />
grief, lamentation, pain, sorrow, and despair (all) arise,<br />
25 In the Udāna, the first discourse only has the forward order, the second the reverse order,<br />
and the third has both, as the first verse refers to the arising of suffering (only) and the<br />
second to its cessation, it would seem the Udāna’s version is more authentic. For<br />
complementary doctrinal and grammatical notes I refer the reader to my translation of the<br />
Udāna under the title Exalted Utterances elsewhere on this website.