Dighanikaya 5.323

5.323

Evaṃ me sutaṃ…pe… magadhesūti kūṭadantasuttaṃ. Tatrāyaṃ apubbapadavaṇṇanā. Magadhesūti magadhā nāma jānapadino rājakumārā, tesaṃ nivāso ekopi janapado rūḷhīsaddena magadhāti vuccati, tasmiṃ magadhesu janapade. Ito paraṃ purimasuttadvaye vuttanayameva. Ambalaṭṭhikā brahmajāle vuttasadisāva. Kūṭadantoti tassa brāhmaṇassa nāmaṃ. Upakkhaṭoti sajjito. Vacchatarasatānīti vacchasatāni. Urabbhāti taruṇameṇḍakā vuccanti. Ete tāva pāḷiyaṃ āgatāyeva. Pāḷiyaṃ pana anāgatānampi anekesaṃ migapakkhīnaṃ sattasattasatāni sampiṇḍitānevāti veditabbāni. Sabbasattasatikayāgaṃ kiresa yajitukāmo hoti. Thūṇūpanītānīti bandhitvā ṭhapanatthāya yūpasaṅkhātaṃ thūṇaṃ upanītāni.

“Thus have I heard… among the Magadhans” introduces the Kūṭadanta Sutta. Herein, this is the explanation of unfamiliar words. “Among the Magadhans” (magadhesu): royal princes of a province are called Magadhans; their dwelling-place, even though a single province, is called Magadhā by conventional usage; in that Magadhan province. What follows this is in the very manner stated in the previous two suttas. Ambalaṭṭhikā is just as stated in the Brahmajāla. Kūṭadanta is the name of that brahmin. “Prepared” (upakkhaṭo) means arranged. “Hundreds of bull-calves” (vacchatarasatāni) means hundreds of young calves. “Rams” (urabbhā) refers to young rams. These are mentioned in the text itself. But it should be understood that seven hundred each of many beasts and birds not mentioned in the text were also gathered together. He desired, it is said, to perform a sacrifice of seven hundred of every kind. “Brought up to the sacrificial posts” (thūṇūpanītāni) means brought to the pillars known as sacrificial posts for the purpose of binding and setting them up.