[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Buddhist Sanskrit literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit) › [Āgama sūtras of the mainstream schools](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama) › [Arthaviniścayasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.arthaviniscayasutra) › [དོན་རྣམ་པར་ངེས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྣམ་གྲངས](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.arthaviniscayasutra*bo) › [Distinctly Ascertaining the Meanings](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.arthaviniscayasutra*bo~en-84000) › 1 # དན་རྣམ་པར་ངས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་ཆས་ཀྱ་རྣམ་གྲངས 1 Distinctly Ascertaining the Meanings 1 - **Language:** English ### [1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.arthaviniscayasutra*bo~en-84000.1) I bow to all buddhas and bodhisattvas. Thus did I hear at one time.¹³ The Bhagavat was residing in Śrāvastī, at the eastern¹⁴ pleasance in the palace of Mṛgāra’s mother, with a great saṅgha of one thousand two hundred and fifty bhikṣus. There, with a Brahmā voice that, like a cloud, was deep, delightful, and vast, the Bhagavat addressed the bhikṣus: “Bhikṣus, I will teach you the Dharma that is auspicious in the beginning, auspicious in the middle, and auspicious in the end,¹⁵ that has good meaning and is well expressed.¹⁶ I will clarify the unique, complete, pure, and purified Brahman conduct, the Dharma instruction Distinctly Ascertaining the Meanings. - [Previous: intro.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.arthaviniscayasutra*bo~en-84000.intro.24) - [Next: 2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.arthaviniscayasutra*bo~en-84000.2) ## Linked texts (1) - [དོན་རྣམ་པར་ངེས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྣམ་གྲངས](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.arthaviniscayasutra*bo.1) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.arthaviniscayasutra*bo~en-84000.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.arthaviniscayasutra*bo~en-84000.1) · Pramāṇa