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# Mahagovindasutta 58.1

Mahāgovindasutta 58.1

- **Language:** Pāli

### [58.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.19.58.1)

Atha kho, bho, mahāgovindo brāhmaṇo tassa sattāhassa accayena kesamassuṃ ohāretvā kāsāyāni vatthāni acchādetvā agārasmā anagāriyaṃ pabbaji.

> When a week had passed, the Great Steward shaved off his hair and beard, dressed in ocher robes, and went forth from the lay life to homelessness.  
> — The Great Steward

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## Translations (3)

- [Mahāgovinda](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.19~sr-brankokovacevic.58.1) — sr
- [Der Große Verwalter](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.19~de-sabbamitta.58.1) — German
- [The Great Steward](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.19~en-sujato.58.1) — English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Sumaṅgalavilāsinī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha!sumangalavilasini.19.326) — Buddhaghosa, Pāli

## Linked texts (2)

- [長阿含經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.dirghagama*zh-buddhayasas.3.66) — Classical Chinese
- [大堅固婆羅門緣起經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.dirgha.mahagovindiyasutra*zh-danapala.2.51) — Classical Chinese

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