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# Mahaparinibbanasutta 3.37

Mahāparinibbānasutta 3.37

- **Language:** Pāli

### [3.37.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.16.3.37.1)

Evaṃ vutte, ahaṃ, ānanda, māraṃ pāpimantaṃ etadavocaṃ:

> When he had spoken, I said to Māra:  
> — The Great Discourse on the Buddha’s Extinguishment

### [3.37.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.16.3.37.2)

‘appossukko tvaṃ, pāpima, hohi, na ciraṃ tathāgatassa parinibbānaṃ bhavissati.

> ‘Relax, Wicked One. The full extinguishment of the Realized One will be soon.  
> — The Great Discourse on the Buddha’s Extinguishment

### [3.37.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.16.3.37.3)

Ito tiṇṇaṃ māsānaṃ accayena tathāgato parinibbāyissatī’ti.

> Three months from now the Realized One will be fully extinguished.’  
> — The Great Discourse on the Buddha’s Extinguishment

### [3.37.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.16.3.37.4)

Idāneva kho, ānanda, ajja cāpāle cetiye tathāgatena satena sampajānena āyusaṅkhāro ossaṭṭho”ti.

> So today, just now at the Cāpāla Shrine, mindful and aware, I surrendered the life force.”  
> — 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.3.37.1) — Russian
- [Die große Lehrrede vom Erlöschen des Buddha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.16~de-sabbamitta.3.37.1) — German
- [Dugi govor o konačnom oslobođenju](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.16~sr-brankokovacevic.3.37.1) — sr
- [The Great Discourse on the Buddha’s Extinguishment](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.16~en-sujato.3.37.1) — English
- [The Book of the Great Decease (Mahâ-parinibbâna-suttanta)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.16~en-rhysdavids1881.3.47) — English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Sumaṅgalavilāsinī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha!sumangalavilasini.16.177) — Buddhaghosa, Pāli

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