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title: "Linked Discourses II: Causation · Saṁyutta Nikāya · Nidānavagga"
author: "The Buddha"
translator: "Bhikkhu Sujato"
languages: [pi, en]
shelf: "Pali Canon"
section: 12 of 35
url: https://scriptura.si/works/pali-samyutta-nikaya-2/12/
cite: "The Buddha, tr. Bhikkhu Sujato, Linked Discourses II: Causation · Saṁyutta Nikāya · Nidānavagga, section 12. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/pali-samyutta-nikaya-2/12/"
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# Linked Discourses II: Causation · Saṁyutta Nikāya · Nidānavagga

*The Buddha, tr. Bhikkhu Sujato*

Dependent origination and the chain of causes, the elements, the endless round of rebirth, and the great disciples.

> Pali: the Mahāsaṅgīti Tipiṭaka (Buddha Jayanti edition, 2500), from SuttaCentral’s bilara-data, dedicated to the public domain (CC0).

> English: Bhikkhu Sujato, from SuttaCentral’s bilara-data, dedicated to the public domain (CC0). Notes are not included.

> Rows follow the segment numbers the two texts share, gathered into paragraphs; verse keeps its lines.

## 12. Ascetics and Brahmins · SN 12.71–12.72–81

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/pali-samyutta-nikaya-2/12/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/pali-samyutta-nikaya-2/12/#p-N

[¶0] SN 12.71 · Old Age and Death

> Pali: SN 12.71 · Jarāmaraṇasutta

[¶1] So I have heard. At one time the Buddha was staying near Sāvatthī in Jeta’s Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika’s monastery.

> Pali: Evaṁ me sutaṁ— ekaṁ samayaṁ bhagavā sāvatthiyaṁ viharati jetavane anāthapiṇḍikassa ārāme. Tatra kho bhagavā …pe…

[¶2] “Mendicants, there are ascetics and brahmins who don’t understand old age and death, their origin, their cessation, and the practice that leads to their cessation. I don’t deem them as true ascetics and brahmins. Those venerables don’t realize the goal of life as an ascetic or brahmin, and don’t live having realized it with their own insight in this very life.

> Pali: “ye hi keci, bhikkhave, samaṇā vā brāhmaṇā vā jarāmaraṇaṁ nappajānanti, jarāmaraṇasamudayaṁ nappajānanti, jarāmaraṇanirodhaṁ nappajānanti, jarāmaraṇanirodhagāminiṁ paṭipadaṁ nappajānanti, na me te, bhikkhave, samaṇā vā brāhmaṇā vā samaṇesu vā samaṇasammatā brāhmaṇesu vā brāhmaṇasammatā, na ca pana te āyasmanto sāmaññatthaṁ vā brahmaññatthaṁ vā diṭṭheva dhamme sayaṁ abhiññā sacchikatvā upasampajja viharanti.

[¶3] There are ascetics and brahmins who do understand old age and death, their origin, their cessation, and the practice that leads to their cessation. I deem them as true ascetics and brahmins. Those venerables realize the goal of life as an ascetic or brahmin, and live having realized it with their own insight.”

> Pali: Ye ca kho keci, bhikkhave, samaṇā vā brāhmaṇā vā jarāmaraṇaṁ pajānanti …pe… paṭipadaṁ pajānanti, te kho me, bhikkhave, samaṇā vā brāhmaṇā vā samaṇesu ceva samaṇasammatā brāhmaṇesu ca brāhmaṇasammatā, te ca panāyasmanto sāmaññatthañca brahmaññatthañca diṭṭheva dhamme sayaṁ abhiññā sacchikatvā upasampajja viharantī”ti.

[¶4] > Pali: (Suttanto eko.)

[¶5] > Pali: Paṭhamaṁ.

[¶6] SN 12.72–81 · A Set of Ten on Rebirth, Etc.

> Pali: SN 12.72–81 · Jātisuttādidasaka

[¶7] At Sāvatthī.

> Pali: “Sāvatthiyaṁ viharati.

[¶8] “… they don’t understand rebirth …”

> Pali: Jātiṁ nappajānanti …pe….

[¶9] “… continued existence …”

> Pali: “Bhavaṁ nappajānanti …pe….

[¶10] “… grasping …”

> Pali: “Upādānaṁ nappajānanti …pe….

[¶11] “… craving …”

> Pali: “Taṇhaṁ nappajānanti …pe….

[¶12] “… feeling …”

> Pali: “Vedanaṁ nappajānanti …pe….

[¶13] “… contact …”

> Pali: “Phassaṁ nappajānanti …pe….

[¶14] “… the six sense fields …”

> Pali: “Saḷāyatanaṁ nappajānanti …pe….

[¶15] “… name and form …”

> Pali: “Nāmarūpaṁ nappajānanti …pe….

[¶16] “… consciousness …”

> Pali: “Viññāṇaṁ nappajānanti …pe….

[¶17] “… choices …

> Pali: “Saṅkhāre nappajānanti, saṅkhārasamudayaṁ nappajānanti, saṅkhāranirodhaṁ nappajānanti, saṅkhāranirodhagāminiṁ paṭipadaṁ nappajānanti …pe…

[¶18] … they understand …”

> Pali: pajānanti …pe… sayaṁ abhiññā sacchikatvā upasampajja viharantī”ti.

[¶19] > Pali: Ekādasamaṁ.

[¶20] > Pali: Samaṇabrāhmaṇavaggo aṭṭhamo.

[¶21] > Pali: Tassuddānaṁ

[¶22] > Pali: Paccayekādasa vuttā,
catusaccavibhajjanā;
Samaṇabrāhmaṇavaggo,
nidāne bhavati aṭṭhamo.

[¶23] > Pali: vagguddānaṁ

[¶24] > Pali: Buddho āhāro dasabalo,
Kaḷāro gahapatipañcamo;
Dukkhavaggo mahāvaggo,
Aṭṭhamo samaṇabrāhmaṇoti.