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Sutta Nipāta 5-13: Bhadrāvudhamāṇavapucchā
Viggo Fausböll, 1881 · Historical English translation
1. ‘I entreat the wise (Buddha), the houseless, who cuts off desire,’—so (said) the venerable Bhadrāvudha,—‘who is free from commotion, forsakes joy, has crossed the stream, is liberated, and who leaves time behind; having heard the chief’s (word), they will go away from here. (1100)
2. ‘Different people have come together from the provinces, longing (to hear) thy speech, O hero; do thou expound it thoroughly to them, for this Dhamma is well known to thee.’ (1101)
3. ‘Let one wholly subdue the desire of grasping (after everything), O Bhadrāvudha,’—so said Bhagavat,—‘above, below, across, and in the middle; for whatever they grasp after in the world, just by that Māra follows the man. (1102)
4. ‘Therefore, knowing this, let not the thoughtful Bhikkhu grasp after anything in all the world, considering as creatures of desire this generation, sticking fast in the realm of death.’ (1103)
Bhadrāvudhamāṇavapucchā 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.