King Mahāsudassana 1.7: 2. Sattaratanasamannāgata
Mahāsudassanasutta 1.7
- Language
- Pāli
Contents
- 1.7.0 — 1 part
2. Sattaratanasamannāgata
1.7.0.2
2.1. Cakkaratana
2.1. The Wheel-Treasure
1.7.1
Rājā, ānanda, mahāsudassano sattahi ratanehi samannāgato ahosi catūhi ca iddhīhi.
King Mahāsudassana possessed seven treasures and four blessings.
1.7.2
Katamehi sattahi?
What seven?
1.7.3
Idhānanda, rañño mahāsudassanassa tadahuposathe pannarase sīsaṃnhātassa uposathikassa uparipāsādavaragatassa
On a fifteenth day sabbath, King Mahāsudassana had bathed his head and gone upstairs in the royal longhouse to observe the sabbath.
1.7.4
dibbaṃ cakkaratanaṃ pāturahosi sahassāraṃ sanemikaṃ sanābhikaṃ sabbākāraparipūraṃ.
And the heavenly wheel-treasure appeared to him, with a thousand spokes, with rim and hub, complete in every detail.
1.7.5
Disvā rañño mahāsudassanassa etadahosi:
Seeing this, the king thought,
1.7.6
‘sutaṃ kho pana metaṃ: “yassa rañño khattiyassa muddhāvasittassa tadahuposathe pannarase sīsaṃnhātassa uposathikassa uparipāsādavaragatassa dibbaṃ cakkaratanaṃ pātubhavati sahassāraṃ sanemikaṃ sanābhikaṃ sabbākāraparipūraṃ, so hoti rājā cakkavattī”ti.
‘I have heard that when the heavenly wheel-treasure appears to a king in this way, he becomes a wheel-turning monarch.
1.7.7
Assaṃ nu kho ahaṃ rājā cakkavattī’ti.
Am I then a wheel-turning monarch?’
Translations (4)
- Kralj Mahasudassana — sr
- Der König Mahāsudassana — German
- King Mahāsudassana — English
- Legend of the Great King of Glory (Mahâ-sudassana-sutta) — English
Commentaries (1)
- Sumaṅgalavilāsinī — Buddhaghosa, Pāli
Linked texts (2)
- Cakkavattisutta — Pāli
- Bālapaṇḍitasutta — Pāli