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Cakkavattisutta 9.8

Cakkavattisutta 9.8

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Pāli

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

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