[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.c36.208 # Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c36.208 Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v2.c36.208 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c36.208](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c36.208) Sakkapañha Sutta.—The twenty-first of the Dīgha Nikāya.¹ Sakka² visits the Buddha at the Indasālaguhā in Vediyagiri, and, having obtained leave from the Buddha through Pañcasikha, asks a series of fourteen questions on the causes of malice and avarice, favour and disfavour, of desire, of mental preoccupation, obsession (papañca), happiness (somanassa), sorrow (domanassa), equanimity, good behaviour of body and speech (as enjoined in the Pātimokkha), right pursuit (pariyesanā), control of the sense-faculties, the presence of divers persuasions (anekadhātu), and failure in attaining the right ideal.³ The Sutta also contains the story of the Sākyan maiden Gopikā (q.v.). Sakka is greatly pleased with the Buddha’s answers, and, together with eighty thousand devas, becomes a sotāpanna. - [Previous: v2.c36.207](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c36.207) - [Next: v2.c36.209](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c36.209) - [Up: v2.c36](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c36) ## Linked texts (3) - [Sakkapañhasutta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.digha.21.1.1.1) — Pāli - [Dutiyahāliddikānisutta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.samyutta.3.22.4.1.1) — Pāli - [Gandhavaṃsa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada_postcanon.vamsa.gandhavamsa) — Pāli --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c36.208](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v2.c36.208) · Pramāṇa