[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) › 38.6 # With Poṭṭhapāda 38.6 Poṭṭhapādasutta 38.6 - **Language:** Pāli ### [38.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.9.38.6) Te ce me evaṃ puṭṭhā ‘āmā’ti paṭijānanti. > ‘ \[Then surely just so, Poṭṭhapāda, with those Samaṇas and Brahmans who postulate a soul happy and healthy after death. For they acknowledge that they know no such state in this world now. They acknowledge that they cannot say their own souls have been happy here even for half a day. And they acknowledge that they know no way, no method, of ensuring such a result. \] Now what think you of that, Poṭṭhapāda. That being so, does not their talk, too, turn out to be without good ground?’ > ‘For a truth, Sir, that being so, their talk would turn out to be without good ground. > — Potthapada Sutta (Dialogues of the Buddha) - [Previous: 38.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.9.38.5) - [Next: 38.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.9.38.7) - [Up: 38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.9.38) ## Translations (1) - [Potthapada Sutta (Dialogues of the Buddha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.9~en-rhysdavids.1.38) — English ## Linked texts (1) - [長阿含經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.dirghagama*zh-buddhayasas.28.49) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.9.38.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.9.38.6) · Pramāṇa