Mahākhandhako The Great Chapter - Ancient Buddhist Texts

The Great Chapter - 172
Atha kho āyasmā Assaji Sāriputtassa paribbājakassa
o Then the venerable Assaji recited this Dhamma instruction
imaṁ Dhammapariyāyaṁ abhāsi:
to the wanderer Sāriputta:
“Ye dhammā hetuppabhavā tesaṁ hetuṁ Tathāgato āha,
“Whatever things 213 have a cause and source, their cause the Realised One has
told,
Tesañ-ca yo nirodho - evaṁvādī Mahāsamaṇo.” ti
And also that which is their cessation 214 - such is the Great Ascetic’s doctrine.”
Atha kho Sāriputtassa paribbājakassa, imaṁ Dhammapariyāyaṁ sutvā,
Then to the wanderer Sāriputta, after hearing this Dhamma instruction,
virajaṁ vītamalaṁ Dhammacakkhuṁ udapādi:
the dust-free, stainless Vision-of-the-Dhamma arose:
“Yaṁ kiñci samudayadhammaṁ,
“Whatever has the nature of arising,
sabban-taṁ nirodhadhamman.”-ti
all that has the nature of ceasing.”
“Eseva Dhammŏ yadi tāvad-eva paccavyathā Padam-Asokaṁ,
And he said: “This really is the Dhamma if you have penetrated the Sorrowless
State,
adiṭṭhaṁ abbhatītaṁ bahukehi kappanahutehī.” ti
unseen through many myriads of past aeons.”
Atha kho Sāriputto paribbājako yena Moggallāno paribbājako tenupasaṅkami.
Then the wanderer Sāriputta approached the wanderer Moggallāna.
Addasā kho Moggallāno paribbājako
The wanderer Moggallāna saw
Sāriputtaṁ paribbājakaṁ dūrato va āgacchantaṁ,
the wanderer Sāriputta coming while still far away,
213 Comm: pañcakkhandhā; the five constituents (of mind and matter making up a human
being).
214 Regarding this famous verse the commentary points out that the first line refers to the
Truth of Suffering the second to the Arising of Suffering, and the third to the Cessation of
Suffering.