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# Cakkavattisutta 9.1-11

Cakkavattisutta 9.1-11

- **Language:** Pāli

### [9.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.26.9.1)

Atha kho, bhikkhave, aññataro puriso yena rājā khattiyo muddhābhisitto tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā rājānaṃ khattiyaṃ muddhābhisittaṃ etadavoca:

> Then a certain man approached the newly anointed aristocrat king and said,  
> — The Wheel-Turning Monarch

### [9.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.26.9.2)

‘yagghe, deva, jāneyyāsi, dibbaṃ cakkaratanaṃ antarahitan’ti?

> ‘Please Your Majesty, you should know that the heavenly wheel-treasure has vanished.’  
> — The Wheel-Turning Monarch

### [9.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.26.9.3)

Atha kho, bhikkhave, rājā khattiyo muddhābhisitto dibbe cakkaratane antarahite anattamano ahosi. Anattamanatañca paṭisaṃvedesi;

> At that the king was unhappy and experienced unhappiness.  
> — The Wheel-Turning Monarch

### [9.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.26.9.4)

no ca kho rājisiṃ upasaṅkamitvā ariyaṃ cakkavattivattaṃ pucchi.

> But he didn’t go to the royal seer and ask about the noble duty of a wheel-turning monarch.  
> — The Wheel-Turning Monarch

### [9.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.26.9.5)

So samateneva sudaṃ janapadaṃ pasāsati.

> He just governed the country according to his own ideas.  
> — The Wheel-Turning Monarch

### [9.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.26.9.6)

Tassa samatena janapadaṃ pasāsato pubbenāparaṃ janapadā na pabbanti, yathā taṃ pubbakānaṃ rājūnaṃ ariye cakkavattivatte vattamānānaṃ.

> So governed, the country’s people did not prosper like before, as they had when former kings proceeded in the noble duty of a wheel-turning monarch.  
> — The Wheel-Turning Monarch

### [9.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.26.9.7)

Atha kho, bhikkhave, amaccā pārisajjā gaṇakamahāmattā anīkaṭṭhā dovārikā mantassājīvino sannipatitvā rājānaṃ khattiyaṃ muddhābhisittaṃ etadavocuṃ:

> Then the ministers and councillors, the treasurers and chief ministers, military officers, guardsmen, and professional advisers gathered and said to the king,  
> — The Wheel-Turning Monarch

### [9.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.26.9.8)

‘na kho te, deva, samatena sudaṃ janapadaṃ pasāsato pubbenāparaṃ janapadā pabbanti, yathā taṃ pubbakānaṃ rājūnaṃ ariye cakkavattivatte vattamānānaṃ.

> ‘Your Majesty, when governed according to your own ideas, the country’s people do not prosper like before, as they did when former kings proceeded in the noble duty of a wheel-turning monarch.  
> — The Wheel-Turning Monarch

### [9.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.26.9.9)

Saṃvijjanti kho te, deva, vijite amaccā pārisajjā gaṇakamahāmattā anīkaṭṭhā dovārikā mantassājīvino mayañceva aññe ca ye mayaṃ ariyaṃ cakkavattivattaṃ dhārema.

> In your realm are found ministers and councillors, treasurers and chief ministers, military officers, guardsmen, and professional advisers—both ourselves and others—who remember the noble duty of a wheel-turning monarch.  
> — The Wheel-Turning Monarch

### [9.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.26.9.10)

Iṅgha tvaṃ, deva, amhe ariyaṃ cakkavattivattaṃ puccha.

> Please, Your Majesty, ask us about the noble duty of a wheel-turning monarch.  
> — The Wheel-Turning Monarch

### [9.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.26.9.11)

Tassa te mayaṃ ariyaṃ cakkavattivattaṃ puṭṭhā byākarissāmā’ti.

> We will answer you.’  
> — The Wheel-Turning Monarch

## Translations (3)

- [O vladaru koji pokreće točak istine](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.26~sr-brankokovacevic.9.1) — sr
- [The Wheel-Turning Monarch](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.26~en-sujato.9.1) — English
- [Der Rad-drehende Herrscher](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.26~de-sabbamitta.9.1) — German

## Commentaries (1)

- [Sumaṅgalavilāsinī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha!sumangalavilasini.26.90) — Buddhaghosa, Pāli

## Linked texts (2)

- [中阿含經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.madhyamagama*zh-sanghadeva.70.11) — Classical Chinese
- [長阿含經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.dirghagama*zh-buddhayasas.6.14) — Classical Chinese

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