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# Sakka’s Questions 1.7

Sakkapañhasutta 1.7

- **Language:** Pāli

### [1.7.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.21.1.7.1)

Vande te pitaraṃ bhadde,

### [1.7.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.21.1.7.2)

timbaruṃ sūriyavacchase;

### [1.7.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.21.1.7.3)

Yena jātāsi kalyāṇī,

### [1.7.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.21.1.7.4)

ānandajananī mama.

### [1.7.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.21.1.7.5)

…pe…

### [1.7.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.21.1.7.6)

Sālaṃva na ciraṃ phullaṃ,

### [1.7.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.21.1.7.7)

pitaraṃ te sumedhase;

### [1.7.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.21.1.7.8)

Vandamāno namassāmi,

### [1.7.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.21.1.7.9)

yassāsetādisī pajāti.

### [1.7.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.21.1.7.10)

Evaṃ vutte, bhante, bhaddā sūriyavacchasā maṃ etadavoca:

> When I finished, Suriyavaccasā said to me,  
> — Sakka’s Questions

### [1.7.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.21.1.7.11)

‘na kho me, mārisa, so bhagavā sammukhā diṭṭho, api ca sutoyeva me so bhagavā devānaṃ tāvatiṃsānaṃ sudhammāyaṃ sabhāyaṃ upanaccantiyā.

> ‘Good fellow, I have not personally seen the Buddha. But I did hear about him when I went to dance for the gods of the thirty-three in the Hall of Clear Right.  
> — Sakka’s Questions

### [1.7.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.21.1.7.12)

Yato kho tvaṃ, mārisa, taṃ bhagavantaṃ kittesi, hotu no ajja samāgamo’ti.

> Since you extol the Buddha, let us meet up today.’  
> — Sakka’s Questions

### [1.7.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.21.1.7.13)

Soyeva no, bhante, tassā bhaginiyā saddhiṃ samāgamo ahosi.

> And that’s when I met up with that sister.  
> — Sakka’s Questions

### [1.7.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.21.1.7.14)

Na ca dāni tato pacchā”ti.

> But we have not met since.”  
> — Sakka’s Questions

## Translations (3)

- [Sakkina pitanja](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.21~sr-brankokovacevic.1.7.10) — sr
- [Sakkas Fragen](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.21~de-sabbamitta.1.7.10) — German
- [Sakka’s Questions](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.21~en-sujato.1.7.10) — English

## Linked texts (3)

- [中阿含經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.madhyamagama*zh-sanghadeva.134.13) — Classical Chinese
- [長阿含經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.dirghagama*zh-buddhayasas.14.14) — Classical Chinese
- [帝釋所問經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.dirgha.sakrapariprcchasutra*zh-dharmabhadra.1.10) — Classical Chinese

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