Brahmajalasutta 3.9

Brahmajala Sutta (Dialogues of the Buddha) 3.9

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3.9

‘There are, brethren, recluses and Brahmans who are Annihilationists, who in seven ways maintain the cutting off, the destruction, the annihilation of a living being. And on account of what, starting out from what, do they do so?

3.9.n1

SectionSection 9-18 are discussed by James D’Alwis in ‘Buddhist Nirvana,’ p. 47. Comp. Jacobi, ‘Jaina Sūtras,’ II, 236, 339.

3.9.n2

Sato sattassa. Insert the word sato in the text (as in SectionSection 17,19, 41, 42). The Kaṭha Upanishad I, 20 alludes to such belief.

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Brahmajālasutta — Pāli