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# Brahmajalasutta 1.25

Brahmajālasutta 1.25

- **Language:** Pāli

### [1.25.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1.1.25.1)

‘Yathā vā paneke bhonto samaṇabrāhmaṇā saddhādeyyāni bhojanāni bhuñjitvā te evarūpāya tiracchānavijjāya micchājīvena jīvitaṃ kappenti,

> ‘There are some ascetics and brahmins who, while enjoying food given in faith, still earn a living by low lore, by wrong livelihood.  
> — The Divine Net

### [1.25.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1.1.25.2)

seyyathidaṃ—suvuṭṭhikā bhavissati, dubbuṭṭhikā bhavissati, subhikkhaṃ bhavissati, dubbhikkhaṃ bhavissati, khemaṃ bhavissati, bhayaṃ bhavissati, rogo bhavissati, ārogyaṃ bhavissati, muddā, gaṇanā, saṅkhānaṃ, kāveyyaṃ, lokāyataṃ

> This includes predicting whether there will be plenty of rain or drought; plenty to eat or famine; an abundant harvest or a bad harvest; security or peril; sickness or health. It also includes such occupations as arithmetic, accounting, calculating, poetry, and cosmology.  
> — The Divine Net

### [1.25.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1.1.25.3)

iti vā iti evarūpāya tiracchānavijjāya micchājīvā paṭivirato samaṇo gotamo’ti—

> The ascetic Gotama refrains from such low lore, such wrong livelihood.’  
> — The Divine Net

### [1.25.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1.1.25.4)

iti vā hi, bhikkhave, puthujjano tathāgatassa vaṇṇaṃ vadamāno vadeyya.

> Such is an ordinary person’s praise of the Realized One.  
> — The Divine Net

## Translations (5)

- [Наставление о величайшей сети](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1~ru-khantibalo.1.25.1) — Russian
- [Najobuhvatnija mreža gledišta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1~sr-brankokovacevic.1.25.1) — sr
- [Das göttliche Netz](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1~de-sabbamitta.1.25.1) — German
- [The Divine Net](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1~en-sujato.1.25.1) — English
- [Brahmajala Sutta (Dialogues of the Buddha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1~en-rhysdavids.1.25) — English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Sumaṅgalavilāsinī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha!sumangalavilasini.1.25) — Buddhaghosa, Pāli

## Linked texts (3)

- [長阿含經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.dirghagama*zh-buddhayasas.21.15) — Classical Chinese
- [梵網六十二見經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.dirgha.brahmajalasutra*zh-zhi-qian.1.24) — Classical Chinese
- [Sāmaññaphalasutta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.2.60.2) — Pāli

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