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# Mahapadanasutta 2.21

Mahāpadānasutta 2.21

- **Language:** Pāli

### [2.21.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.14.2.21.1)

Atha kho, bhikkhave, vipassissa bodhisattassa etadahosi:

> Then Vipassī thought,  
> — The Great Discourse on Traces Left Behind

### [2.21.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.14.2.21.2)

‘adhigato kho myāyaṃ maggo sambodhāya yadidaṃ—

> ‘I have discovered the path to awakening. That is:  
> — The Great Discourse on Traces Left Behind

### [2.21.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.14.2.21.3)

nāmarūpanirodhā viññāṇanirodho, viññāṇanirodhā nāmarūpanirodho, nāmarūpanirodhā saḷāyatananirodho, saḷāyatananirodhā phassanirodho, phassanirodhā vedanānirodho, vedanānirodhā taṇhānirodho, taṇhānirodhā upādānanirodho, upādānanirodhā bhavanirodho, bhavanirodhā jātinirodho, jātinirodhā jarāmaraṇaṃ sokaparidevadukkhadomanassupāyāsā nirujjhanti.

> When name and form cease, consciousness ceases. When consciousness ceases, name and form cease. When name and form cease, the six sense fields cease. When the six sense fields cease, contact ceases. When contact ceases, feeling ceases. When feeling ceases, craving ceases. When craving ceases, grasping ceases. When grasping ceases, continued existence ceases. When continued existence ceases, rebirth ceases. When rebirth ceases, old age and death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, sadness, and distress cease.  
> — The Great Discourse on Traces Left Behind

### [2.21.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.14.2.21.4)

Evametassa kevalassa dukkhakkhandhassa nirodho hoti’.

> That is how this entire mass of suffering ceases.’  
> — The Great Discourse on Traces Left Behind

### [2.21.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.14.2.21.5)

‘Nirodho nirodho’ti kho, bhikkhave, vipassissa bodhisattassa pubbe ananussutesu dhammesu cakkhuṃ udapādi, ñāṇaṃ udapādi, paññā udapādi, vijjā udapādi, āloko udapādi.

> ‘Cessation, cessation.’ Such was the vision, knowledge, wisdom, realization, and light that arose in Vipassī, the one intent on awakening, regarding teachings not learned before from another.  
> — The Great Discourse on Traces Left Behind

## Translations (3)

- [Dugi govor o velikom podvigu](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.14~sr-brankokovacevic.2.21.1) — sr
- [Die große Lehrrede über hinterlassene Spuren](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.14~de-sabbamitta.2.21.1) — German
- [The Great Discourse on Traces Left Behind](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.14~en-sujato.2.21.1) — English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Sumaṅgalavilāsinī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha!sumangalavilasini.14.61) — Buddhaghosa, Pāli

## Linked texts (3)

- [長阿含經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.dirghagama*zh-buddhayasas.1.105) — Classical Chinese
- [毘婆尸佛經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.dirgha.mahavadanasutra*zh-dharmadeva.1.29) — Classical Chinese
- [Mahāvagga](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.vp.khandhaka.mahavagga.1.1.2.4) — Pāli

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