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# Mahaparinibbanasutta 1.1

Mahāparinibbānasutta 1.1

- **Language:** Pāli

### [1.1.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.16.1.1.1)

Evaṃ me sutaṃ—

> So I have heard.  
> — The Great Discourse on the Buddha’s Extinguishment

### [1.1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.16.1.1.2)

ekaṃ samayaṃ bhagavā rājagahe viharati gijjhakūṭe pabbate.

> At one time the Buddha was staying near Rājagaha, on the Vulture’s Peak Mountain.  
> — The Great Discourse on the Buddha’s Extinguishment

### [1.1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.16.1.1.3)

Tena kho pana samayena rājā māgadho ajātasattu vedehiputto vajjī abhiyātukāmo hoti.

> Now at that time King Ajātasattu of Magadha, son of the princess of Videha, wanted to invade the Vajjis.  
> — The Great Discourse on the Buddha’s Extinguishment

### [1.1.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.16.1.1.4)

So evamāha:

> He said:  
> — The Great Discourse on the Buddha’s Extinguishment

### [1.1.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.16.1.1.5)

“ahaṃ hime vajjī evaṃmahiddhike evaṃmahānubhāve ucchecchāmi vajjī, vināsessāmi vajjī, anayabyasanaṃ āpādessāmī”ti.

> “I shall wipe out these Vajjis, so mighty and powerful! I shall destroy them, and lay ruin and devastation upon them!”  
> — The Great Discourse on the Buddha’s Extinguishment

## Translations (5)

- [Большое наставление об окончательной ниббане](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.16~ru-khantibalo.1.1.1) — Russian
- [Die große Lehrrede vom Erlöschen des Buddha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.16~de-sabbamitta.1.1.1) — German
- [Dugi govor o konačnom oslobođenju](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.16~sr-brankokovacevic.1.1.1) — sr
- [The Great Discourse on the Buddha’s Extinguishment](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.16~en-sujato.1.1.1) — English
- [The Book of the Great Decease (Mahâ-parinibbâna-suttanta)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.16~en-rhysdavids1881.1.1) — English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Sumaṅgalavilāsinī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha!sumangalavilasini.16.131) — Buddhaghosa, Pāli

## Linked texts (1)

- [Vassakārasutta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.anguttara.7.22) — Pāli

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