Dighanikaya 1.1_40

1.1_40

Addhānamaggappaṭipanno hotīti addhānasaṅkhātaṃ maggaṃ paṭipanno hoti, ‘‘dīghamagga’’nti attho. Addhānagamanasamayassa hi vibhaṅge ‘‘aḍḍhayojanaṃ gacchissāmīti bhuñjitabba’’ntiādivacanato (pāci. 218) aḍḍhayojanampi addhānamaggo hoti. Rājagahato pana nāḷandā yojanameva.

‘Was travelling along the high road’ (addhānamaggappaṭipanno hoti) means: was entering upon the road reckoned as a high road; the meaning is ‘a long road’. For in the analysis of the time of travelling along a high road, according to such statements as ‘“I will go half a league,” having eaten’, even half a league is a high road. But from Rājagaha to Nāḷandā it is just a league.