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# King Mahāsudassana 1.27

Mahāsudassanasutta 1.27

- **Language:** Pāli

### [1.27.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.17.1.27.1)

Atha kho, ānanda, rañño mahāsudassanassa etadahosi:

> Then King Mahāsudassana thought,  
> — King Mahāsudassana

### [1.27.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.17.1.27.2)

‘yannūnāhaṃ mahāviyūhassa kūṭāgārassa dvāre sabbasovaṇṇamayaṃ tālavanaṃ māpeyyaṃ, yattha divāvihāraṃ nisīdissāmī’ti.

> ‘Why don’t I build a grove of golden palm trees at the door to the Chamber of the Grand Tower, where I can sit for the day?’  
> — King Mahāsudassana

### [1.27.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.17.1.27.3)

Māpesi kho, ānanda, rājā mahāsudassano mahāviyūhassa kūṭāgārassa dvāre sabbasovaṇṇamayaṃ tālavanaṃ, yattha divāvihāraṃ nisīdi.

> So that’s what he did.  
> — King Mahāsudassana

## Translations (4)

- [Kralj Mahasudassana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.17~sr-brankokovacevic.1.27.1) — sr
- [Der König Mahāsudassana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.17~de-sabbamitta.1.27.1) — German
- [King Mahāsudassana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.17~en-sujato.1.27.1) — English
- [Legend of the Great King of Glory (Mahâ-sudassana-sutta)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.17~en-rhysdavids1881.1.77) — English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Sumaṅgalavilāsinī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha!sumangalavilasini.17.257) — Buddhaghosa, Pāli

## Linked texts (1)

- [中阿含經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.madhyamagama*zh-sanghadeva.68.15) — Classical Chinese

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