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# Mahapadanasutta 3.2.12

Mahāpadānasutta 3.2.12

- **Language:** Pāli

### [3.2.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.14.3.2.12)

‘nassati vata bho loko, vinassati vata bho loko, yatra hi nāma vipassissa bhagavato arahato sammāsambuddhassa appossukkatāya cittaṃ namati, no dhammadesanāyā’ti.

> ‘Oh lord! The world will be lost, the world will perish! For the mind of the Blessed One Vipassī, the perfected one, the fully awakened Buddha, inclines to remaining passive, not to teaching the Dhamma.’  
> — The Great Discourse on Traces Left Behind

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## Translations (3)

- [Dugi govor o velikom podvigu](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.14~sr-brankokovacevic.3.2.12) — sr
- [Die große Lehrrede über hinterlassene Spuren](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.14~de-sabbamitta.3.2.12) — German
- [The Great Discourse on Traces Left Behind](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.14~en-sujato.3.2.12) — English

## Linked texts (6)

- [Chaṭṭha Saṅgāyana edition](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.jataka!jatakatthavannana*cst.0.477) — Pāli
- [Mahāvagga](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.vp.khandhaka.mahavagga.1.5.4.3) — Pāli
- [長阿含經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.dirghagama*zh-buddhayasas.1.109) — Classical Chinese
- [Bodhirājakumārasutta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.majjhima.85.44.2) — Pāli
- [Pāsarāsisutta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.majjhima.26.20.2) — Pāli
- [Brahmāyācanasutta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.samyutta.1.6.1.5.2) — Pāli

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