Dighanikaya 24.5

24.5

Aggaññanti lokapaññattiṃ. ‘‘Idaṃ nāma lokassa agga’’nti evaṃ jānitabbampi aggaṃ mariyādaṃ na taṃ paññapetīti vadati. Sesamettha anantaravādānusāreneva veditabbaṃ.

“The beginning of the world”: the conventional designation of the world. Even the beginning boundary that is to be known as “this is the beginning of the world,” he says that he does not make known. The rest herein is to be understood precisely according to the preceding explanation.