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Mahākhandhako The Great Chapter - Ancient Buddhist Texts

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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Great</strong> <strong>Chapter</strong> - 14<br />

Atha kho Bhagavā rattiyā paṭhamaṁ yāmaṁ,<br />

<strong>The</strong>n the Gracious One, for the first watch of the night,<br />

paṭiccasamuppādaṁ anulomapaṭilomaṁ manasākāsi:<br />

applied his mind thoroughly to conditional origination in forward and reverse<br />

order: 25<br />

“Avijjāpaccayā saṅkhārā,<br />

“Because of ignorance there are (volitional) processes,<br />

saṅkhārapaccayā viññāṇaṁ,<br />

because of (volitional) processes: consciousness,<br />

viññāṇapaccayā nāmarūpaṁ,<br />

because of consciousness: mind and body,<br />

nāmarūpapaccayā saḷāyatanaṁ,<br />

because of mind and body: the six sense spheres,<br />

saḷāyatanapaccayā phasso,<br />

because of the six sense spheres: contact,<br />

phassapaccayā vedanā,<br />

because of contact: feeling,<br />

vedanāpaccayā taṇhā,<br />

because of feeling: craving,<br />

taṇhāpaccayā upādānaṁ,<br />

because of craving: attachment,<br />

upādānapaccayā bhavo,<br />

because of attachment: continuation,<br />

bhavapaccayā jāti,<br />

because of continuation: birth,<br />

jātipaccayā jarāmaraṇaṁ,<br />

because of birth: old age, death,<br />

sokaparidevadukkhadomanassupāyāsā sambhavanti,<br />

grief, lamentation, pain, sorrow, and despair (all) arise,<br />

25 In the Udāna, the first discourse only has the forward order, the second the reverse order,<br />

and the third has both, as the first verse refers to the arising of suffering (only) and the<br />

second to its cessation, it would seem the Udāna’s version is more authentic. For<br />

complementary doctrinal and grammatical notes I refer the reader to my translation of the<br />

Udāna under the title Exalted Utterances elsewhere on this website.

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