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# Mahanidanasutta 19.1-5

Mahānidānasutta 19.1-5

- **Language:** Pāli

### [19.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.15.19.1)

‘Phassapaccayā vedanā’ti iti kho panetaṃ vuttaṃ, tadānanda, imināpetaṃ pariyāyena veditabbaṃ, yathā phassapaccayā vedanā.

> ‘Contact is a requirement for feeling’—that’s what I said. And this is a way to understand how this is so.  
> — The Great Discourse on Causation

### [19.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.15.19.2)

Phasso ca hi, ānanda, nābhavissa sabbena sabbaṃ sabbathā sabbaṃ kassaci kimhici, seyyathidaṃ—

> Suppose there were totally and utterly no contact for anyone anywhere.  
> — The Great Discourse on Causation

### [19.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.15.19.3)

cakkhusamphasso sotasamphasso ghānasamphasso jivhāsamphasso kāyasamphasso manosamphasso, sabbaso phasse asati phassanirodhā api nu kho vedanā paññāyethā”ti?

> That is, contact through the eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind. When there’s no contact at all, with the cessation of contact, would feeling still be found?”  
> — The Great Discourse on Causation

### [19.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.15.19.4)

“No hetaṃ, bhante”.

> “No, sir.”  
> — The Great Discourse on Causation

### [19.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.15.19.5)

“Tasmātihānanda, eseva hetu etaṃ nidānaṃ esa samudayo esa paccayo vedanāya, yadidaṃ phasso.

> “That’s why this is the cause, source, origin, and reason of feeling, namely contact.  
> — The Great Discourse on Causation

## Translations (4)

- [Большое наставление об обусловленности](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.15~ru-khantibalo.19.1) — Russian
- [Dugi govor o uzročnosti](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.15~sr-brankokovacevic.19.1) — sr
- [The Great Discourse on Causation](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.15~en-sujato.19.1) — English
- [Die große Lehrrede über das Kausalprinzip](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.15~de-sabbamitta.19.1) — German

## Commentaries (1)

- [Sumaṅgalavilāsinī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha!sumangalavilasini.15.113) — Buddhaghosa, Pāli

## Linked texts (4)

- [中阿含經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.madhyamagama*zh-sanghadeva.97.50) — Classical Chinese
- [長阿含經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.dirghagama*zh-buddhayasas.13.41) — Classical Chinese
- [人本欲生經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.dirgha.mahanidanasutra*zh-an-shigao.1.30) — Classical Chinese
- [大生義經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.dirgha.mahanidanasutra*zh-danapala.1.9) — Classical Chinese

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