[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [The Pāli Canon](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada) › [Basket of Discourses](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp) › [Dīghanikāya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha) › [Cakkavattisutta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.26) › 23.1-9 # Cakkavattisutta 23.1-9 Cakkavattisutta 23.1-9 - **Language:** Pāli ### [23.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.26.23.1) vīsativassasahassāyukānaṃ manussānaṃ cattārīsavassasahassāyukā puttā bhavissanti … > 40,000 years, > — The Wheel-Turning Monarch ### [23.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.26.23.2) cattārīsavassasahassāyukānaṃ manussānaṃ asītivassasahassāyukā puttā bhavissanti … > and finally 80,000 years. > — The Wheel-Turning Monarch ### [23.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.26.23.3) asītivassasahassāyukesu, bhikkhave, manussesu pañcavassasatikā kumārikā alaṃpateyyā bhavissanti. > Among the humans who live for 80,000 years, girls will be marriageable at five hundred. > — The Wheel-Turning Monarch ### 7. Saṅkharājauppatti ### [23.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.26.23.5) Asītivassasahassāyukesu, bhikkhave, manussesu tayo ābādhā bhavissanti, icchā, anasanaṃ, jarā. > Among the humans who live for 80,000 years, there will be just three afflictions: greed, starvation, and old age. > — The Wheel-Turning Monarch ### [23.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.26.23.6) Asītivassasahassāyukesu, bhikkhave, manussesu ayaṃ jambudīpo iddho ceva bhavissati phīto ca, kukkuṭasampātikā gāmanigamarājadhāniyo. > The Black Plum Tree Land will be successful and prosperous. The villages, towns, and capital cities will be no more than a chicken’s flight apart. > — The Wheel-Turning Monarch ### [23.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.26.23.7) Asītivassasahassāyukesu, bhikkhave, manussesu ayaṃ jambudīpo avīci maññe phuṭo bhavissati manussehi, seyyathāpi naḷavanaṃ vā saravanaṃ vā. > And the land will be so full of humans you’d think they were squashed together, like a thicket of rushes or reeds. > — The Wheel-Turning Monarch ### [23.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.26.23.8) Asītivassasahassāyukesu, bhikkhave, manussesu ayaṃ bārāṇasī ketumatī nāma rājadhānī bhavissati iddhā ceva phītā ca bahujanā ca ākiṇṇamanussā ca subhikkhā ca. > The royal capital will be Varanasi, renamed Ketumatī. And it will be successful and prosperous, populous and full of people, with plenty of food. > — The Wheel-Turning Monarch ### [23.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.26.23.9) Asītivassasahassāyukesu, bhikkhave, manussesu imasmiṃ jambudīpe caturāsītinagarasahassāni bhavissanti ketumatīrājadhānīpamukhāni. > There will be 84,000 cities in the Black Plum Tree Land, with the royal capital of Ketumatī foremost. > — The Wheel-Turning Monarch ## Translations (3) - [O vladaru koji pokreće točak istine](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.26~sr-brankokovacevic.23.1) — sr - [The Wheel-Turning Monarch](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.26~en-sujato.23.1) — English - [Der Rad-drehende Herrscher](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.26~de-sabbamitta.23.1) — German ## Commentaries (1) - [Sumaṅgalavilāsinī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha!sumangalavilasini.26.106) — Buddhaghosa, Pāli ## Linked texts (2) - [中阿含經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.madhyamagama*zh-sanghadeva.70.34) — Classical Chinese - [長阿含經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.dirghagama*zh-buddhayasas.6.27) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.26.23.1-9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.26.23.1-9) · Pramāṇa