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The 129th Sutta of the Majjhima Nikāya, preached at Jetavana. It deals with the disabilities of folly and the pain and anguish resulting there from, also with the advantages of wisdom and the bliss to which it leads. It contains, besides, descriptions of the horrors of the hells, expressed by means of various similes (M.iii.163ff.; cp. S. ii.23f). The Sutta forms a kind of prose background to the Bāla Vagga and the Pandita Vagga of the Dhammapada. Mahinda preached this Sutta at the Nandapavana in Anurādhapura, and one thousand women, who listened to him, became sotāpannas. Mhv.Xv.4. Updated: 15 September 2011 http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/b/balapandita_s.htm |
