[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) › [Avadāna and jātaka literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.avadana) › [Jñānakasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.avadana.jnanakasutra) › [འཕགས་པ་སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་རྟོགས་པ་བརྗོད་པ་ཤེས་ལྡན་གྱི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.avadana.jnanakasutra*bo) › [The Sutra of Jnanaka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.avadana.jnanakasutra*bo~en-84000) › 1 # འཕགས་པ་སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱ་རྟགས་པ་བརྗད་པ་ཤས་ལྡན་གྱ་མད 1 The Sūtra of Jñānaka 1 - **Language:** English ### [1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.avadana.jnanakasutra*bo~en-84000.1) Homage to all buddhas and bodhisattvas. Thus did I hear at one time. The Blessed One was staying among the gods of the Heaven of the Thirty-Three for the benefit of his mother. He was seated in front of the Pāriyātra tree upon the Pāṇḍukambala rock. There was a god there experiencing the five ominous signs of death: his garlands had withered, his clothes had started to deteriorate, his body had started to smell, sweat dripped from his armpits, and he felt unhappy on his seat. This god foresaw his rebirth in the womb of a pig in Vaiśālī, causing him to be overcome with misery and cry out in woe. He beat his chest as he wept uncontrollably. Another god approached him and asked, “Deva, is it death that you fear?” “Indeed, fellow deva,” he responded, “it is death that I fear. Why? Well, fellow deva, I have eaten divine foods, imbibed divine drinks, and worn divine garments here among the gods of the Heaven of the Thirty-Three. Thus, as I behold my rebirth in the womb of a pig in Vaiśālī, I see that I will eat excrement and be killed by a blade. These are the reasons, fellow deva, that I fear death.” “Do not be afraid of death, my fellow deva! Why? Well, fellow deva, the Blessed One—the thus-gone, worthy, perfect Buddha—is residing here in the Heaven of the Thirty-Three for the benefit of his mother. He is seated in front of the Pāriyātra tree upon the Pāṇḍukambala rock. Deva, you should by all means pay homage to the Blessed One. He will come here to save you from the lower realms. Why? Fellow deva, the blessed Buddha has great compassion and never forsakes beings.” - [Previous: intro.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.avadana.jnanakasutra*bo~en-84000.intro.5) - [Next: 2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.avadana.jnanakasutra*bo~en-84000.2) ## Linked texts (1) - [འཕགས་པ་སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་རྟོགས་པ་བརྗོད་པ་ཤེས་ལྡན་གྱི་མདོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.avadana.jnanakasutra*bo.1) — Classical Tibetan --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.avadana.jnanakasutra*bo~en-84000.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.avadana.jnanakasutra*bo~en-84000.1) · Pramāṇa