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Sutta Nipāta 5-10: Todeyyamāṇavapucchā
Viggo Fausböll, 1881 · Historical English translation
1. ‘He in whom there live no lusts,’—so said the venerable Todeyya,—‘to whom there is no desire, and who has overcome doubt, what sort of deliverance is there for him?’ (1087)
2. ‘He in whom there live no lusts, O Todeyya,’—so said Bhagavat,—‘to whom there is no desire, and who has overcome doubt, for him there is no other deliverance.’ (1088)
3. Todeyya: ‘Is he without breathing or is he breathing, is he possessed of understanding or is he forming himself an understanding? Explain this to me, O thou all-seeing one, that I may know a Muni, O Sakka.’ (1089)
4. Buddha: ‘He is without breathing, he is not breathing, he is possessed of understanding, and he is not forming himself an understanding; know, O Todeyya, that such is the Muni, not possessing anything, not cleaving to lust and existence.’ (1090)
Todeyyamāṇavapucchā is ended.
Translation, numbering and rights
Viggo Fausböll, 1881. Public-domain 1881 translation, from the free non-commercial EPUB distributed by Reading Faithfully (edition 1.0, February 2012), transcribed by Christopher M. Weimer for the Internet Sacred Text Archive. This reader is free and non-commercial. Pali diacritics follow the EPUB. Translator introductions and footnotes are omitted; discourse prose, verses and the concluding passages are retained.
This 1881 edition uses consecutive verse numbers ending at 1148. It differs from the Japanese edition and must not be aligned by verse number alone. The final reading includes the concluding praises and Piṅgiya’s dialogue. The source’s printed numbering is retained, including gaps. A repeated “1041” in the source is retained; the expected “1047” is not silently substituted. No verse text is supplied by guesswork.
This historical English translation uses older vocabulary. It is independent of the Japanese translation linked from this site. The Japanese edition’s translator and license are credited there.