Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c29.907

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**Brahmajāla Sutta.**—The first sutta of the **Dīgha Nikāya**. It was preached to the paribbājaka **Suppiya** and his disciple **Brahmadatta**. It first explains the *sīla*, or moral precepts, in three successive sections—*cūla* (concise), *majjhima* (medium), and *mahā* (elaborate)—and then proceeds to set out in sixty-two divisions various speculations and theories regarding the "soul."¹ Other names for it are **Atthajāla**, **Dhammajāla**, **Diṭṭhijāla**, and **Saṅgāmavijaya**. At the end of the discourse the ten world-systems trembled.² It is said that once when **Piṇḍapātiya Thera** recited this sutta at the **Kalyāṇiya-vihāra**, his mind concentrated on the Buddha, the earth trembled; the same phenomenon occurred when the **Dīghabhāṇaka Theras** recited it at the **Ambalaṭṭhikā**, to the east of the **Lohapāsāda**.³