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# Mahanidanasutta 23.1

Mahānidānasutta 23.1

- **Language:** Pāli

### [23.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.15.23.1)

Kittāvatā ca, ānanda, attānaṃ paññapento paññapeti?

> How do those who describe the self describe it?  
> — The Great Discourse on Causation

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## Translations (4)

- [Большое наставление об обусловленности](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.15~ru-khantibalo.23.1) — Russian
- [Dugi govor o uzročnosti](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.15~sr-brankokovacevic.23.1) — sr
- [The Great Discourse on Causation](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.15~en-sujato.23.1) — English
- [Die große Lehrrede über das Kausalprinzip](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.15~de-sabbamitta.23.1) — German

## Commentaries (1)

- [Sumaṅgalavilāsinī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha!sumangalavilasini.15.117) — Buddhaghosa, Pāli

## Linked texts (3)

- [中阿含經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.madhyamagama*zh-sanghadeva.97.86) — Classical Chinese
- [長阿含經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.dirghagama*zh-buddhayasas.13.66) — Classical Chinese
- [人本欲生經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.dirgha.mahanidanasutra*zh-an-shigao.1.48) — Classical Chinese

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