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# Mahapadanasutta 1.1

Mahāpadānasutta 1.1

- **Language:** Pāli

### [1.1.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.14.1.1.1)

Evaṃ me sutaṃ—

> So I have heard.  
> — The Great Discourse on Traces Left Behind

### [1.1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.14.1.1.2)

ekaṃ samayaṃ bhagavā sāvatthiyaṃ viharati jetavane anāthapiṇḍikassa ārāme karerikuṭikāyaṃ.

> At one time the Buddha was staying near Sāvatthī in Jeta’s Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika’s monastery, in the hut by the kareri tree.  
> — The Great Discourse on Traces Left Behind

### [1.1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.14.1.1.3)

Atha kho sambahulānaṃ bhikkhūnaṃ pacchābhattaṃ piṇḍapātapaṭikkantānaṃ karerimaṇḍalamāḷe sannisinnānaṃ sannipatitānaṃ pubbenivāsapaṭisaṃyuttā dhammī kathā udapādi:

> Then after the meal, on return from almsround, several mendicants sat together in the pavilion by the kareri tree and this Dhamma talk on the subject of past lives came up among them,  
> — The Great Discourse on Traces Left Behind

### [1.1.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.14.1.1.4)

“itipi pubbenivāso, itipi pubbenivāso”ti.

> “So it was in a past life; such it was in a past life.”  
> — The Great Discourse on Traces Left Behind

## Translations (4)

- [Die große Lehrrede über hinterlassene Spuren](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.14~de-sabbamitta.1.1.1) — German
- [The Great Discourse on Traces Left Behind](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.14~en-sujato.1.1.1) — English
- [Dugi govor o velikom podvigu](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.14~sr-brankokovacevic.1.1.2) — sr
- [Mahapadana Sutta (Dialogues of the Buddha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.14~en-rhysdavids.1.1) — English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Sumaṅgalavilāsinī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha!sumangalavilasini.14.1) — Buddhaghosa, Pāli

## Linked texts (4)

- [增壹阿含經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.ekottaragama*zh-sanghadeva.48.4.2) — Classical Chinese
- [長阿含經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.dirghagama*zh-buddhayasas.1.4) — Classical Chinese
- [七佛經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.mahavadanasutra*zh-dharmadeva.1.2) — Classical Chinese
- [七佛父母姓字經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.mahavadanasutra*zh-t4.1.2) — Classical Chinese

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