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# Mahaparinibbanasutta 4.11

Mahāparinibbānasutta 4.11

- **Language:** Pāli

### [4.11.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.16.4.11.1)

Idha pana, bhikkhave, bhikkhu evaṃ vadeyya:

> Take another mendicant who says:  
> — The Great Discourse on the Buddha’s Extinguishment

### [4.11.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.16.4.11.2)

‘amukasmiṃ nāma āvāse eko thero bhikkhu viharati bahussuto āgatāgamo dhammadharo vinayadharo mātikādharo.

> ‘In such-and-such monastery there is a single senior mendicant who is very learned, an inheritor of the heritage, who has memorized the teachings, the monastic law, and the outlines.  
> — The Great Discourse on the Buddha’s Extinguishment

### [4.11.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.16.4.11.3)

Tassa me therassa sammukhā sutaṃ sammukhā paṭiggahitaṃ—

> I’ve heard and learned this in the presence of that senior mendicant:  
> — The Great Discourse on the Buddha’s Extinguishment

### [4.11.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.16.4.11.4)

ayaṃ dhammo ayaṃ vinayo idaṃ satthusāsanan’ti.

> this is the teaching, this is the training, this is the Teacher’s instruction.’  
> — The Great Discourse on the Buddha’s Extinguishment

### [4.11.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.16.4.11.5)

Tassa, bhikkhave, bhikkhuno bhāsitaṃ neva abhinanditabbaṃ nappaṭikkositabbaṃ.

> You should neither approve nor reject that mendicant’s statement.  
> — The Great Discourse on the Buddha’s Extinguishment

### [4.11.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.16.4.11.6)

Anabhinanditvā appaṭikkositvā tāni padabyañjanāni sādhukaṃ uggahetvā sutte osāretabbāni, vinaye sandassetabbāni.

> Instead, having carefully memorized those words and phrases, you should make sure they fit in the discourse and are exhibited in the training.  
> — The Great Discourse on the Buddha’s Extinguishment

### [4.11.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.16.4.11.7)

Tāni ce sutte osāriyamānāni vinaye sandassiyamānāni na ceva sutte osaranti, na ca vinaye sandissanti, niṭṭhamettha gantabbaṃ:

> If they do not fit in the discourse and are not exhibited in the training, you should draw the conclusion:  
> — The Great Discourse on the Buddha’s Extinguishment

### [4.11.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.16.4.11.8)

‘addhā idaṃ na ceva tassa bhagavato vacanaṃ;

> ‘Clearly this is not the word of the Buddha.  
> — The Great Discourse on the Buddha’s Extinguishment

### [4.11.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.16.4.11.9)

tassa ca therassa duggahitan’ti.

> It has been incorrectly memorized by that senior mendicant.’  
> — The Great Discourse on the Buddha’s Extinguishment

### [4.11.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.16.4.11.10)

Itihetaṃ, bhikkhave, chaḍḍeyyātha.

> And so you should discard it.  
> — The Great Discourse on the Buddha’s Extinguishment

### [4.11.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.16.4.11.11)

Tāni ca sutte osāriyamānāni vinaye sandassiyamānāni sutte ceva osaranti, vinaye ca sandissanti, niṭṭhamettha gantabbaṃ:

> If they do fit in the discourse and are exhibited in the training, you should draw the conclusion:  
> — The Great Discourse on the Buddha’s Extinguishment

### [4.11.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.16.4.11.12)

‘addhā idaṃ tassa bhagavato vacanaṃ;

> ‘Clearly this is the word of the Buddha.  
> — The Great Discourse on the Buddha’s Extinguishment

### [4.11.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.16.4.11.13)

tassa ca therassa suggahitan’ti.

> It has been correctly memorized by that senior mendicant.’  
> — The Great Discourse on the Buddha’s Extinguishment

### [4.11.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.16.4.11.14)

Idaṃ, bhikkhave, catutthaṃ mahāpadesaṃ dhāreyyātha.

> You should remember it. This is the fourth great reference.  
> — The Great Discourse on the Buddha’s Extinguishment

### [4.11.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.16.4.11.15)

Ime kho, bhikkhave, cattāro mahāpadese dhāreyyāthā”ti.

> These are the four great references.”  
> — 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.4.11.1) — Russian
- [Die große Lehrrede vom Erlöschen des Buddha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.16~de-sabbamitta.4.11.1) — German
- [Dugi govor o konačnom oslobođenju](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.16~sr-brankokovacevic.4.11.1) — sr
- [The Great Discourse on the Buddha’s Extinguishment](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.16~en-sujato.4.11.1) — English
- [The Book of the Great Decease (Mahâ-parinibbâna-suttanta)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.16~en-rhysdavids1881.4.11) — English

## Linked texts (1)

- [Mahāpadesasutta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.anguttara.4.180.8.7) — Pāli

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