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DHAMMA-KAKKA-PPAVATTANA-SUTTA.
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28. And thus, in an instant, a second, a moment, the sound went up even to the world of Brahmâ: and this great ten-thousand-world-system quaked and trembled and was shaken violently, and an immeasurable bright light appeared in the universe, beyond even the power of the gods!
29. Then did the Blessed One give utterance to this exclamation of joy : 'Kondañña hath realised it. Kondañña hath realised it!' And so the venerable Kondañña acquired the name of AññâtaKondañña ('the Kondañña who realised ')
End of the Dhamma-kakka-ppavattana-sutta.
compare Professor Max Müller's note in ‘Buddhaghosha's Parables,' p. xxxiii, and Hardy in the 'Manual of Buddhism,' p. 25.
1 The Maha Vagga completes the narrative as follows: And then the venerable Aññâta-Kondoñña having seen the truth, having arrived at the truth, having known the truth, having penetrated the truth, having past beyond doubt, having laid aside uncertainty, having attained to confidence, and being dependent on no one beside himself for knowledge of the religion of the teacher, spake thus to the Blessed One:
"“May I become, O my Lord, a novice under the Blessed One, may I receive full ordination !"
«“Welcome, O brother !" said the Blessed One, “the truth has been well laid down. Practice holiness to the complete suppression of sorrow!"
And that was the ordination of the Venerable One.'
The other four, Vappa, Bhaddiya, Mahânâma, and Assagi, were converted on the following days, according to the 'Buddhist Birth Stories,' p. 113.
It is there also said that myriads of the angels (devas) had been converted simultaneously with Kondanya.'
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| SR No. | 007674 |
| Book Title | Dhammapada |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Max Muller |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1881 |
| Total Pages | 2540 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 45 MB |