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# Balapanditasutta 34.4

Bālapaṇḍitasutta 34.4

- **Language:** Pāli

### [34.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.majjhima.129.34.4)

‘sutaṃ kho pana metaṃ yassa rañño khattiyassa muddhāvasittassa tadahuposathe pannarase sīsaṃnhātassa uposathikassa uparipāsādavaragatassa dibbaṃ cakkaratanaṃ pātubhavati sahassāraṃ sanemikaṃ sanābhikaṃ sabbākāraparipūraṃ, so hoti rājā cakkavattīti.

> ‘I have heard that when the heavenly wheel-treasure appears to a king in this way, he becomes a wheel-turning monarch.  
> — The Foolish and the Astute

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## Translations (4)

- [Der Tor und der Kluge](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.majjhima.129~de-sabbamitta.34.4) — German
- [The Foolish and the Astute](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.majjhima.129~en-sujato.34.4) — English
- [Il discorso sullo stolto e l’astuto](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.majjhima.129~it-giovannizappa.34.4) — Italian
- [Глупцы и мудрецы](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.majjhima.129~ru-sv.34.4) — Russian

## Linked texts (3)

- [中阿含經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.madhyamagama*zh-sanghadeva.199.53) — Classical Chinese
- [Mahāsudassanasutta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.17.1.7.6) — Pāli
- [Cakkavattisutta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.26.5.14) — Pāli

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