[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) › [Other mainstream sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.other) › [Dīrghanakhaparivrājakaparipṛcchā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.other.dirghanakhaparivrajakapariprccha) › [ཀུན་ཏུ་རྒྱུ་བ་སེན་རིངས་ཀྱིས་ཞུས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.other.dirghanakhaparivrajakapariprccha*bo) › [The Questions of Dirghanakha the Wandering Mendicant](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.other.dirghanakhaparivrajakapariprccha*bo~en-84000) › 3 # ཀན་ཏ་རྒྱ་བ་སན་རངས་ཀྱས་ཞས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་མད 3 The Questions of Dīrghanakha the Wandering Mendicant 3 - **Language:** English ### [3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.other.dirghanakhaparivrajakapariprccha*bo~en-84000.3) replied, “Great brahmin, this is the result of the action of abandoning song, dance, and jewelry³⁴ in my previous succession of lives.” (9) “What previous actions did the renunciant Gautama perform and accumulate so that he enjoys the three seats?”³⁵ The Blessed One replied, “Great brahmin, this is the result of the action of abandoning high thrones and large beds in my previous succession of lives.” (10) “What previous actions did the renunciant Gautama perform and accumulate so that he came to have the raised uṣṇīṣa on his head?” The Blessed One replied, “Great brahmin, this is the result of the actions of placing my limbs and head upon the earth,³⁶ prostrating, and making offerings to the Buddha, Dharma, Saṅgha, parents, preceptors, scholars,³⁷ gurus, and those worthy of offering in my previous succession of lives.”³⁸ At this point, Dīrghanakha the wandering mendicant set his staff³⁹ on the ground and bowed his head to the feet of the Blessed One. Standing to the side of the Blessed One, he joined his palms together, bowed, and said,⁴⁰ “Blessed One, for as long as I live, I go for refuge in the Buddha. For as long as I live, I go for refuge in the Dharma. For as long as I live, I go for refuge in the Saṅgha. For as long as I live, I will undertake abstinence relating to the eight poṣadha vows.⁴¹ “From now on I will abandon (1) killing any living creatures, (2) stealing another’s wealth, (3) engaging in sex, (4) lying or using divisive speech, (5) becoming intoxicated, (6) eating food at the inappropriate time, (7) garlands, cosmetics, song, dance, and entertainment, and (8) high beds. I will maintain these eight good qualities - [Previous: 2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.other.dirghanakhaparivrajakapariprccha*bo~en-84000.2) - [Next: 4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.other.dirghanakhaparivrajakapariprccha*bo~en-84000.4) ## Linked texts (1) - [ཀུན་ཏུ་རྒྱུ་བ་སེན་རིངས་ཀྱིས་ཞུས་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བའི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.other.dirghanakhaparivrajakapariprccha*bo.3) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.other.dirghanakhaparivrajakapariprccha*bo~en-84000.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.other.dirghanakhaparivrajakapariprccha*bo~en-84000.3) · Pramāṇa