[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) › v2.c29.907 # Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c29.907 Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v2.c29.907 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c29.907](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c29.907) \*\*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 - [Previous: v2.c29.906](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c29.906) - [Next: v2.c29.908](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c29.908) - [Up: v2.c29](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c29) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c29.907](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c29.907) · Pramāṇa