[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) › [With Poṭṭhapāda](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.9) › 31.9 # With Poṭṭhapāda 31.9 Poṭṭhapādasutta 31.9 - **Language:** Pāli ### [31.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.9.31.9) ‘neva hoti na na hoti tathāgato paraṃ maraṇā’ti vā; > Now no sooner had the Exalted One gone away than those mendicants bore down upon Poṭṭhapāda, the mendicant, from all sides with a torrent of jeering and biting words, saying: ‘Just so forth, this Poṭṭhapāda gives vent to approval of whatsoever the Samaṇa Gotama says, with his: “That is so, O Exalted One. That is so, O Happy One.” Now we, on the other hand, fail to see that the Samaṇa Gotama has put forward any doctrine that is distinct with regard to any one of the ten points raised.’ And they went through them all in detail. > But when they spake thus Poṭṭhapāda, the mendicant, replied: ‘Neither do I see that he puts forward, as certain, any proposition with respect to those points. But the Samaṇa Gotama propounds a method in accordance with the nature of things, true and fit, based on the Norm, and certain by reason of the Norm. And how could I refuse to approve, as well said, what has been so well said by the Samaṇa Gotama as he propounded that?’ > — Potthapada Sutta (Dialogues of the Buddha) - [Previous: 31.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.9.31.8) - [Next: 31.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.9.31.10) - [Up: 31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.9.31) ## Translations (1) - [Potthapada Sutta (Dialogues of the Buddha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.9~en-rhysdavids.1.31) — English ## Linked texts (1) - [長阿含經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.dirghagama*zh-buddhayasas.28.39) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.9.31.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.9.31.9) · Pramāṇa