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Mahaparinibbanasutta 5.17: 32. Mahāsudassanasuttadesanā

Mahāparinibbānasutta 5.17

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32. Mahāsudassanasuttadesanā

5.17.1

Evaṃ vutte, āyasmā ānando bhagavantaṃ etadavoca:

When he said this, Venerable Ānanda said to the Buddha:

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5.17.2

“mā, bhante, bhagavā imasmiṃ khuddakanagarake ujjaṅgalanagarake sākhānagarake parinibbāyi.

“Sir, please don’t be fully extinguished in this little hamlet, this jungle hamlet, this branch hamlet.

The Great Discourse on the Buddha’s Extinguishment

5.17.3

Santi, bhante, aññāni mahānagarāni, seyyathidaṃ—

There are other great cities such as

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5.17.4

campā rājagahaṃ sāvatthī sāketaṃ kosambī bārāṇasī;

Campā, Rājagaha, Sāvatthī, Sāketa, Kosambī, and Varanasi.

The Great Discourse on the Buddha’s Extinguishment

5.17.5

ettha bhagavā parinibbāyatu.

Let the Buddha be fully extinguished there.

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5.17.6

Ettha bahū khattiyamahāsālā, brāhmaṇamahāsālā gahapatimahāsālā tathāgate abhippasannā.

There are many well-to-do aristocrats, brahmins, and householders there who are devoted to the Buddha.

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5.17.7

Te tathāgatassa sarīrapūjaṃ karissantī”ti

They will perform the rites of venerating the Realized One’s corpse.”

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5.17.8

“mā hevaṃ, ānanda, avaca, mā hevaṃ, ānanda, avaca:

“Don’t say that Ānanda! Don’t say that

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5.17.9

‘khuddakanagarakaṃ ujjaṅgalanagarakaṃ sākhānagarakan’ti.

this is a little hamlet, a jungle hamlet, a branch hamlet.

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