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# King Mahāsudassana 1.7: 2. Sattaratanasamannāgata

Mahāsudassanasutta 1.7

- **Language:** Pāli

## Contents

- [1.7.0](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.17.1.7.0) — 1 part

### 2. Sattaratanasamannāgata

### [1.7.0.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.17.1.7.0.2)

2.1. Cakkaratana

> 2.1. The Wheel-Treasure  
> — King Mahāsudassana

### [1.7.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.17.1.7.1)

Rājā, ānanda, mahāsudassano sattahi ratanehi samannāgato ahosi catūhi ca iddhīhi.

> King Mahāsudassana possessed seven treasures and four blessings.  
> — King Mahāsudassana

### [1.7.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.17.1.7.2)

Katamehi sattahi?

> What seven?  
> — King Mahāsudassana

### [1.7.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.17.1.7.3)

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.  
> — King Mahāsudassana

### [1.7.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.17.1.7.4)

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.  
> — King Mahāsudassana

### [1.7.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.17.1.7.5)

Disvā rañño mahāsudassanassa etadahosi:

> Seeing this, the king thought,  
> — King Mahāsudassana

### [1.7.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.17.1.7.6)

‘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.  
> — King Mahāsudassana

### [1.7.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.17.1.7.7)

Assaṃ nu kho ahaṃ rājā cakkavattī’ti.

> Am I then a wheel-turning monarch?’  
> — King Mahāsudassana

## Translations (4)

- [Kralj Mahasudassana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.17~sr-brankokovacevic.1.7.0.2) — sr
- [Der König Mahāsudassana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.17~de-sabbamitta.1.7.0.2) — German
- [King Mahāsudassana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.17~en-sujato.1.7.0.2) — English
- [Legend of the Great King of Glory (Mahâ-sudassana-sutta)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.17~en-rhysdavids1881.1.10) — English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Sumaṅgalavilāsinī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha!sumangalavilasini.17.243) — Buddhaghosa, Pāli

## Linked texts (2)

- [Cakkavattisutta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.26.5.12) — Pāli
- [Bālapaṇḍitasutta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.majjhima.129.34.2) — Pāli

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