[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) › notes.24 # ཀན་ཏ་རྒྱ་བ་སན་རངས་ཀྱས་ཞས་པ་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་མད notes.24 The Questions of Dīrghanakha the Wandering Mendicant notes.24 - **Language:** English ### [notes.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.other.dirghanakhaparivrajakapariprccha*bo~en-84000.notes.24) 24. That is to say that actions reliably cause results. In the Sanskrit this description is slightly different: “Hey Gautama, is it true you say that this world takes actions as its self, is the heir of actions, originates from actions, is bound by actions, and has actions as a refuge?” (satyaṃ bho gautamaivaṃ karmasvako lokaḥ karma­dāyādaḥ karma­yoniḥ karma­bandhuḥ karma­pratisaraṇa iti). The Buddha then replies to Dīrghanakha’s initial question by affirming that he does propose this statement, before the first question (regarding the vajra body) is asked. In the Chinese, the Buddha likewise affirms Dīrghanakha by repeating the statement. - [Previous: notes.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.other.dirghanakhaparivrajakapariprccha*bo~en-84000.notes.23) - [Next: notes.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.other.dirghanakhaparivrajakapariprccha*bo~en-84000.notes.25) - [Up: notes](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.other.dirghanakhaparivrajakapariprccha*bo~en-84000.notes) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.other.dirghanakhaparivrajakapariprccha*bo~en-84000.notes.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.other.dirghanakhaparivrajakapariprccha*bo~en-84000.notes.24) · Pramāṇa