Dighanikaya 2.253_2

2.253_2

Idaṃ pana suttaṃ sutvā raññā koci ānisaṃso laddhoti? Mahāānisaṃso laddho. Ayañhi pitu māritakālato paṭṭhāya neva rattiṃ na divā niddaṃ labhati, satthāraṃ pana upasaṅkamitvā imāya madhurāya ojavantiyā dhammadesanāya sutakālato paṭṭhāya niddaṃ labhi. Tiṇṇaṃ ratanānaṃ mahāsakkāraṃ akāsi. Pothujjanikāya saddhāya samannāgato nāma iminā raññā sadiso nāhosi. Anāgate pana vijitāvī nāma paccekabuddho hutvā parinibbāyissatīti. Idamavoca bhagavā. Attamanā te bhikkhū bhagavato bhāsitaṃ abhinandunti.

Did the king gain any benefit from hearing this discourse? He gained a great benefit. For from the time his father was killed, he had found sleep neither by night nor by day; but having approached the Teacher, from the time he heard this sweet, nourishing Dhamma discourse, he found sleep. He showed great honor to the Three Jewels. In possessing mundane faith, no one was the equal of this king. And in the future, having become a paccekabuddha named Vijitāvī, he will attain parinibbāna. Thus spoke the Blessed One. Delighted, those monks rejoiced in what the Blessed One had said.