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# King Mahāsudassana 1.2

Mahāsudassanasutta 1.2

- **Language:** Pāli

### [1.2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.17.1.2.1)

Atha kho āyasmā ānando yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā bhagavantaṃ abhivādetvā ekamantaṃ nisīdi. Ekamantaṃ nisinno kho āyasmā ānando bhagavantaṃ etadavoca:

> Then Venerable Ānanda went up to the Buddha, bowed, sat down to one side, and said to him,  
> — King Mahāsudassana

### [1.2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.17.1.2.2)

“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.  
> — King Mahāsudassana

### [1.2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.17.1.2.3)

Santi, bhante, aññāni mahānagarāni.

> There are other great cities such as  
> — King Mahāsudassana

### [1.2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.17.1.2.4)

Seyyathidaṃ—campā, rājagahaṃ, sāvatthi, sāketaṃ, kosambī, bārāṇasī;

> Campā, Rājagaha, Sāvatthī, Sāketa, Kosambī, and Varanasi.  
> — King Mahāsudassana

### [1.2.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.17.1.2.5)

ettha bhagavā parinibbāyatu.

> Let the Buddha be fully extinguished there.  
> — King Mahāsudassana

### [1.2.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.17.1.2.6)

Ettha bahū khattiyamahāsālā brāhmaṇamahāsālā gahapatimahāsālā tathāgate abhippasannā, te tathāgatassa sarīrapūjaṃ karissantī”ti.

> There are many well-to-do aristocrats, brahmins, and householders there who are devoted to the Buddha. They will perform the rites of venerating the Realized One’s corpse.”  
> — King Mahāsudassana

## Translations (4)

- [Kralj Mahasudassana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.17~sr-brankokovacevic.1.2.1) — sr
- [Der König Mahāsudassana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.17~de-sabbamitta.1.2.1) — German
- [King Mahāsudassana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.17~en-sujato.1.2.1) — English
- [Legend of the Great King of Glory (Mahâ-sudassana-sutta)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.17~en-rhysdavids1881.1.2) — English

## Linked texts (2)

- [中阿含經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.madhyamagama*zh-sanghadeva.68.6) — Classical Chinese
- [Mahāparinibbānasutta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.16.5.17.2) — Pāli

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