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# Cakkavattisutta 19.1-12

Cakkavattisutta 19.1-12

- **Language:** Pāli

### [19.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.26.19.1)

Bhavissati, bhikkhave, so samayo, yaṃ imesaṃ manussānaṃ dasavassāyukā puttā bhavissanti.

> There will come a time, mendicants, when these people will have children who live for ten years.  
> — The Wheel-Turning Monarch

### [19.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.26.19.2)

Dasavassāyukesu, bhikkhave, manussesu pañcavassikā kumārikā alaṃpateyyā bhavissanti.

> Among the humans who live for ten years, girls will be marriageable at five.  
> — The Wheel-Turning Monarch

### [19.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.26.19.3)

Dasavassāyukesu, bhikkhave, manussesu imāni rasāni antaradhāyissanti, seyyathidaṃ—

> The following flavors will disappear:  
> — The Wheel-Turning Monarch

### [19.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.26.19.4)

sappi navanītaṃ telaṃ madhu phāṇitaṃ loṇaṃ.

> ghee, butter, oil, honey, molasses, and salt.  
> — The Wheel-Turning Monarch

### [19.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.26.19.5)

Dasavassāyukesu, bhikkhave, manussesu kudrūsako aggaṃ bhojanānaṃ bhavissati.

> The best kind of food will be finger millet,  
> — The Wheel-Turning Monarch

### [19.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.26.19.6)

Seyyathāpi, bhikkhave, etarahi sālimaṃsodano aggaṃ bhojanānaṃ;

> just as fine rice with meat is the best kind of food today.  
> — The Wheel-Turning Monarch

### [19.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.26.19.7)

evameva kho, bhikkhave, dasavassāyukesu manussesu kudrūsako aggaṃ bhojanānaṃ bhavissati.

### [19.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.26.19.8)

Dasavassāyukesu, bhikkhave, manussesu dasa kusalakammapathā sabbena sabbaṃ antaradhāyissanti, dasa akusalakammapathā atibyādippissanti.

> The ten ways of doing skillful deeds will totally disappear, and the ten ways of doing unskillful deeds will explode in popularity.  
> — The Wheel-Turning Monarch

### [19.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.26.19.9)

Dasavassāyukesu, bhikkhave, manussesu kusalantipi na bhavissati, kuto pana kusalassa kārako.

> Those humans will not even have the word ‘skillful’, still less anyone who does what is skillful.  
> — The Wheel-Turning Monarch

### [19.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.26.19.10)

Dasavassāyukesu, bhikkhave, manussesu ye te bhavissanti amatteyyā apetteyyā asāmaññā abrahmaññā na kule jeṭṭhāpacāyino, te pujjā ca bhavissanti pāsaṃsā ca.

> And anyone who disrespects mother and father, ascetics and brahmins, and fails to honor the elders in the family will be venerated and praised,  
> — The Wheel-Turning Monarch

### [19.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.26.19.11)

Seyyathāpi, bhikkhave, etarahi matteyyā petteyyā sāmaññā brahmaññā kule jeṭṭhāpacāyino pujjā ca pāsaṃsā ca;

> just as the opposite is venerated and praised today.  
> — The Wheel-Turning Monarch

### [19.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.26.19.12)

evameva kho, bhikkhave, dasavassāyukesu manussesu ye te bhavissanti amatteyyā apetteyyā asāmaññā abrahmaññā na kule jeṭṭhāpacāyino, te pujjā ca bhavissanti pāsaṃsā ca.

## Translations (3)

- [O vladaru koji pokreće točak istine](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.26~sr-brankokovacevic.19.1) — sr
- [The Wheel-Turning Monarch](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.26~en-sujato.19.1) — English
- [Der Rad-drehende Herrscher](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.26~de-sabbamitta.19.1) — German

## Commentaries (1)

- [Sumaṅgalavilāsinī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha!sumangalavilasini.26.103) — Buddhaghosa, Pāli

## Linked texts (2)

- [中阿含經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.madhyamagama*zh-sanghadeva.70.22) — Classical Chinese
- [長阿含經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.dirghagama*zh-buddhayasas.6.20) — Classical Chinese

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