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# Brahmajalasutta 3.11

Brahmajālasutta 3.11

- **Language:** Pāli

### [3.11.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1.3.11.1)

Tamañño evamāha:

> But someone else says to them:  
> — The Divine Net

### [3.11.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1.3.11.2)

‘atthi kho, bho, eso attā, yaṃ tvaṃ vadesi, neso natthīti vadāmi;

> ‘That self of which you speak does exist, I don’t deny it.  
> — The Divine Net

### [3.11.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1.3.11.3)

no ca kho, bho, ayaṃ attā ettāvatā sammā samucchinno hoti.

> But that’s not how this self becomes rightly annihilated.  
> — The Divine Net

### [3.11.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1.3.11.4)

Atthi kho, bho, añño attā dibbo rūpī kāmāvacaro kabaḷīkārāhārabhakkho.

> There is another self that is heavenly, formed, sensual, consuming edible food.  
> — The Divine Net

### [3.11.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1.3.11.5)

Taṃ tvaṃ na jānāsi na passasi.

> You don’t know or see that.  
> — The Divine Net

### [3.11.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1.3.11.6)

Tamahaṃ jānāmi passāmi.

> But I know it and see it.  
> — The Divine Net

### [3.11.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1.3.11.7)

So kho, bho, attā yato kāyassa bhedā ucchijjati vinassati, na hoti paraṃ maraṇā, ettāvatā kho, bho, ayaṃ attā sammā samucchinno hotī’ti.

> Since this self is annihilated and destroyed when the body breaks up, and doesn’t exist after death, that’s how this self becomes rightly annihilated.’  
> — The Divine Net

### [3.11.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1.3.11.8)

Ittheke sato sattassa ucchedaṃ vināsaṃ vibhavaṃ paññapenti.

> That is how some assert the annihilation of an existing being.  
> — The Divine Net

## Translations (5)

- [Наставление о величайшей сети](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1~ru-khantibalo.3.11.1) — Russian
- [Das göttliche Netz](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1~de-sabbamitta.3.11.1) — German
- [The Divine Net](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1~en-sujato.3.11.1) — English
- [Najobuhvatnija mreža gledišta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1~sr-brankokovacevic.3.11.1) — sr
- [Brahmajala Sutta (Dialogues of the Buddha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.1~en-rhysdavids.3.11) — English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Sumaṅgalavilāsinī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha!sumangalavilasini.1.86) — Buddhaghosa, Pāli

## Linked texts (3)

- [長阿含經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.dirghagama*zh-buddhayasas.21.39) — Classical Chinese
- [梵網六十二見經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.dirgha.brahmajalasutra*zh-zhi-qian.1.47) — Classical Chinese
- [Vibhaṅga](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.ap.vibhanga.17.277.5) — Pāli

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