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# Cakkavattisutta 21.15

Cakkavattisutta 21.15

- **Language:** Pāli

### [21.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.26.21.15)

Yannūna mayaṃ pāṇātipātā virameyyāma, idaṃ kusalaṃ dhammaṃ samādāya vatteyyāmā’ti.

> Why don’t we refrain from killing living creatures? Having undertaken this skillful thing we’ll live by it.’  
> — The Wheel-Turning Monarch

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## Translations (3)

- [O vladaru koji pokreće točak istine](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.26~sr-brankokovacevic.21.15) — sr
- [The Wheel-Turning Monarch](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.26~en-sujato.21.15) — English
- [Der Rad-drehende Herrscher](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.26~de-sabbamitta.21.15) — German

## Linked texts (2)

- [中阿含經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.madhyamagama*zh-sanghadeva.70.23) — Classical Chinese
- [長阿含經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.dirghagama*zh-buddhayasas.6.21) — Classical Chinese

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