[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) › [Sampasadaniyasutta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.28) › 16.1-8 # Sampasadaniyasutta 16.1-8 Sampasādanīyasutta 16.1-8 - **Language:** Pāli ### [16.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.28.16.1) Aparaṃ pana, bhante, etadānuttariyaṃ, yathā bhagavā dhammaṃ deseti pubbenivāsānussatiñāṇe. > And moreover, sir, how the Buddha teaches the knowledge of recollecting past lives is unsurpassable. > — Inspiring Confidence ### [16.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.28.16.2) Idha, bhante, ekacco samaṇo vā brāhmaṇo vā ātappamanvāya …pe… tathārūpaṃ cetosamādhiṃ phusati, yathāsamāhite citte anekavihitaṃ pubbenivāsaṃ anussarati. > It’s when some ascetic or brahmin—by dint of keen, resolute, committed, and diligent effort, and right application of mind—experiences an immersion of the heart of such a kind that they recollect their many kinds of past lives. > — Inspiring Confidence ### [16.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.28.16.3) Seyyathidaṃ—ekampi jātiṃ dvepi jātiyo tissopi jātiyo catassopi jātiyo pañcapi jātiyo dasapi jātiyo vīsampi jātiyo tiṃsampi jātiyo cattālīsampi jātiyo paññāsampi jātiyo jātisatampi jātisahassampi jātisatasahassampi anekepi saṃvaṭṭakappe anekepi vivaṭṭakappe anekepi saṃvaṭṭavivaṭṭakappe, > That is: one, two, three, four, five, ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, a hundred, a thousand, a hundred thousand rebirths; many eons of the world contracting, many eons of the world expanding, many eons of the world contracting and expanding. They remember: > — Inspiring Confidence ### [16.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.28.16.4) ‘amutrāsiṃ evaṃnāmo evaṅgotto evaṃvaṇṇo evamāhāro evaṃsukhadukkhappaṭisaṃvedī evamāyupariyanto, so tato cuto amutra udapādiṃ; tatrāpāsiṃ evaṃnāmo evaṅgotto evaṃvaṇṇo evamāhāro evaṃsukhadukkhappaṭisaṃvedī evamāyupariyanto, so tato cuto idhūpapanno’ti. Iti sākāraṃ sauddesaṃ anekavihitaṃ pubbenivāsaṃ anussarati. > ‘There, I was named this, my clan was that, I looked like this, and that was my food. This was how I felt pleasure and pain, and that was how my life ended. When I passed away from that place I was reborn somewhere else. There, too, I was named this, my clan was that, I looked like this, and that was my food. This was how I felt pleasure and pain, and that was how my life ended. When I passed away from that place I was reborn here.’ And so they recollect their many kinds of past lives, with features and details. > — Inspiring Confidence ### [16.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.28.16.5) Santi, bhante, devā, yesaṃ na sakkā gaṇanāya vā saṅkhānena vā āyu saṅkhātuṃ. > Sir, there are gods whose lifespan cannot be reckoned or calculated. > — Inspiring Confidence ### [16.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.28.16.6) Api ca yasmiṃ yasmiṃ attabhāve abhinivuṭṭhapubbo hoti yadi vā rūpīsu yadi vā arūpīsu yadi vā saññīsu yadi vā asaññīsu yadi vā nevasaññīnāsaññīsu. > Still, no matter what incarnation they have previously been reborn in—whether formed or formless or percipient or non-percipient or neither percipient nor non-percipient— > — Inspiring Confidence ### [16.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.28.16.7) Iti sākāraṃ sauddesaṃ anekavihitaṃ pubbenivāsaṃ anussarati. > they recollect their many kinds of past lives, with features and details. > — Inspiring Confidence ### [16.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.28.16.8) Etadānuttariyaṃ, bhante, pubbenivāsānussatiñāṇe. > This is unsurpassable when it comes to the knowledge of recollecting past lives. > — Inspiring Confidence ## Translations (3) - [Ono što uliva poverenje](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.28~sr-brankokovacevic.16.1) — sr - [Inspiring Confidence](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.28~en-sujato.16.1) — English - [Zuversicht wecken](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.28~de-sabbamitta.16.1) — German ## Commentaries (1) - [Sumaṅgalavilāsinī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha!sumangalavilasini.28.157) — Buddhaghosa, Pāli ## Linked texts (1) - [長阿含經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.dirghagama*zh-buddhayasas.18.26) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.28.16.1-8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.28.16.1-8) · Pramāṇa