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AN 4.46With Rohitassa (2nd) · Dutiyarohitassasutta
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Buddhism · Sutta Pitaka · Numbered Discourses (Aṅguttara)
AN 4.46
With Rohitassa (2nd) · Dutiyarohitassasutta
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Then, when the night had passed, the Buddha addressed the mendicants: “Tonight, the glorious godling Rohitassa, lighting up the entire Jeta’s Grove, came to me, bowed, stood to one side, and said to me: ‘Sir, is it possible to know or see or reach the end of the world by traveling to a place where there’s no being born, growing old, dying, passing away, or being reborn?’ …”
Atha kho bhagavā tassā rattiyā accayena bhikkhū āmantesi: “imaṁ, bhikkhave, rattiṁ rohitasso devaputto abhikkantāya rattiyā abhikkantavaṇṇo kevalakappaṁ jetavanaṁ obhāsetvā yenāhaṁ tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā maṁ abhivādetvā ekamantaṁ aṭṭhāsi. Ekamantaṁ ṭhito kho, bhikkhave, rohitasso devaputto maṁ etadavoca: ‘yattha nu kho, bhante, na jāyati na jīyati na mīyati na cavati na upapajjati, sakkā nu kho so, bhante, gamanena lokassa anto ñātuṁ vā daṭṭhuṁ vā pāpuṇituṁ vā’ti? Evaṁ vutte, ahaṁ, bhikkhave, rohitassaṁ devaputtaṁ etadavocaṁ: ‘yattha kho, āvuso, na jāyati na jīyati na mīyati na cavati na upapajjati, nāhaṁ taṁ gamanena lokassa antaṁ ñāteyyaṁ daṭṭheyyaṁ patteyyanti vadāmī’ti. Evaṁ vutte, bhikkhave, rohitasso devaputto maṁ etadavoca: ‘acchariyaṁ, bhante, abbhutaṁ, bhante. Yāva subhāsitamidaṁ, bhante, bhagavatā— yattha kho, āvuso, na jāyati na jīyati na mīyati na cavati na upapajjati, nāhaṁ taṁ gamanena lokassa antaṁ ñāteyyaṁ daṭṭheyyaṁ patteyyanti vadāmi’.
