[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Dictionary of Pali Proper Names](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937) › v1.c9.367 # Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c9.367 Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v1.c9.367 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c9.367](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c9.367) 2. Uttara Sutta.—Preached to the monks by Uttara Thera (Uttara 6) at Mount Saṅkheyya at Dhavajālikā in Mahisavatthu. From time to time we should reflect on our own misfortunes as well as on those of others, and likewise on our successes. Vessavaṇa heard this sutta being preached as he was journeying from north to south on some business. He went to Tāvatiṃsa, where he informed Sakka of what he had heard Uttara say. Sakka, thereupon, appeared before Uttara and asked him whether his sermon was based on his own illumination (paṭibhāna), or on what he had heard from the Buddha. Uttara’s reply was that his words were garnered from the Doctrine of the Buddha just as a man takes a handful of grain from a heap of grain. Sakka then repeated the whole sermon on the same subject, which he had heard the Buddha preach to the monks at Gijjhakūṭa in Rājagaha.¹ ¹ A. iv. 162-6. - [Previous: v1.c9.366](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c9.366) - [Next: v1.c9.368](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c9.368) - [Up: v1.c9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c9) ## Cites (1) - [Uttaravipattisutta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.anguttara.8.8.1.1) — Pāli --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c9.367](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c9.367) · Pramāṇa