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# Mahapadanasutta 2.4.1-5

Mahāpadānasutta 2.4.1-5

- **Language:** Pāli

### [2.4.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.14.2.4.1)

Atha kho, bhikkhave, bandhumassa rañño etadahosi:

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

### [2.4.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.14.2.4.2)

‘Mā heva kho vipassī kumāro na rajjaṃ kāresi, mā heva vipassī kumāro agārasmā anagāriyaṃ pabbaji, mā heva nemittānaṃ brāhmaṇānaṃ saccaṃ assa vacanan’ti.

> ‘Prince Vipassī must not renounce the throne. He must not go forth from the lay life to homelessness. And the words of the brahmin soothsayers must not come true.’  
> — The Great Discourse on Traces Left Behind

### [2.4.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.14.2.4.3)

Atha kho, bhikkhave, bandhumā rājā vipassissa kumārassa bhiyyoso mattāya pañca kāmaguṇāni upaṭṭhāpesi:

> To this end he provided the prince with even more of the five kinds of sensual stimulation,  
> — The Great Discourse on Traces Left Behind

### [2.4.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.14.2.4.4)

‘yathā vipassī kumāro rajjaṃ kareyya, yathā vipassī kumāro na agārasmā anagāriyaṃ pabbajeyya, yathā nemittānaṃ brāhmaṇānaṃ micchā assa vacanan’ti.

### [2.4.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.14.2.4.5)

Tatra sudaṃ, bhikkhave, vipassī kumāro pañcahi kāmaguṇehi samappito samaṅgībhūto paricāreti.

> with which the prince amused himself.  
> — The Great Discourse on Traces Left Behind

## Translations (4)

- [Dugi govor o velikom podvigu](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.14~sr-brankokovacevic.2.4.1) — sr
- [Die große Lehrrede über hinterlassene Spuren](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.14~de-sabbamitta.2.4.1) — German
- [The Great Discourse on Traces Left Behind](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.14~en-sujato.2.4.1) — English
- [Mahapadana Sutta (Dialogues of the Buddha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.14~en-rhysdavids.2.4) — English

## Linked texts (2)

- [長阿含經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.dirghagama*zh-buddhayasas.1.89) — Classical Chinese
- [毘婆尸佛經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.dirgha.mahavadanasutra*zh-dharmadeva.1.11) — Classical Chinese

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