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Sutta Nipāta 5-14: Udayamāṇavapucchā
Viggo Fausböll, 1881 · Historical English translation
1. ‘To Buddha who is sitting meditating, free from pollution,’—so said the venerable Udaya,—‘having performed his duty, who is without passion, accomplished in all things (dhamma), I have come with a question; tell me the deliverance by knowledge, the splitting up of ignorance.’ (1104)
2. ’(It consists in) leaving lust and desire, O Udaya,’—so said Bhagavat,—‘and both (kinds of) grief, and driving away sloth, and warding off misbehaviour. (1105)
3. ‘The deliverance by knowledge which is purified by equanimity and thoughtfulness and preceded by reasoning on Dhamma I will tell thee, the splitting up of ignorance.’ (1106)
4. Udaya: ‘What is the bond of the world, what is its practice? By the leaving of what is Nibbāna said to be?’ (1107)
5. Buddha: ‘The world is bound by pleasure, reasoning is its practice; by the leaving of desire Nibbāna is said to be.’ (1108)
6. Udaya: ‘How does consciousness cease in him that wanders thoughtful? Having come to ask thee, let us hear thy words.’ (1109)
7. Buddha: ‘For him who both inwardly and outwardly does not delight in sensation, for him who thus wanders thoughtful, consciousness ceases.’ (1110)
Udayamāṇavapucchā 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.