0.3PuggalasuttaA Single Individual
1.1Ekaṁ samayaṁ bhagavā rājagahe viharati gijjhakūṭe pabbate.At one time the Buddha was staying near Rājagaha, on the Vulture’s Peak Mountain.11.2Tatra kho bhagavā bhikkhū āmantesi:There the Buddha addressed the mendicants,1.3“bhikkhavo”ti.“Mendicants!”
1.4“Bhadante”ti te bhikkhū bhagavato paccassosuṁ.“Venerable sir,” they replied.1.5Bhagavā etadavoca:The Buddha said this:
2.1“Anamataggoyaṁ, bhikkhave, saṁsāro …pe…“Mendicants, this transmigration has no known beginning. …2.2ekapuggalassa, bhikkhave, kappaṁ sandhāvato saṁsarato siyā evaṁ mahā aṭṭhikaṅkalo aṭṭhipuñjo aṭṭhirāsi yathāyaṁ vepullo pabbato, sace saṁhārako assa, sambhatañca na vinasseyya.One individual roaming and transmigrating for an eon would amass a heap of bones the size of this Mount Vepulla, if they were gathered together and not lost.2
2.3Taṁ kissa hetu?Why is that?2.4Anamataggoyaṁ, bhikkhave, saṁsāro …pe…This transmigration has no known beginning. …2.5alaṁ vimuccitun”ti.This is quite enough for you to become disillusioned, dispassionate, and freed regarding all conditions.”
3.1Idamavoca bhagavā.That is what the Buddha said.3.2Idaṁ vatvāna sugato athāparaṁ etadavoca satthā:Then the Holy One, the Teacher, went on to say:
4.1“Ekassekena kappena,“If the bones of a single individual4.2puggalassaṭṭhisañcayo;for a single eon were gathered up,4.3Siyā pabbatasamo rāsi,they’d make a pile the size of a mountain:4.4iti vuttaṁ mahesinā.so said the great seer.
5.1So kho panāyaṁ akkhāto,And this is declared to be5.2vepullo pabbato mahā;as big as Mount Vepulla,5.3Uttaro gijjhakūṭassa,higher than the Vulture’s Peak5.4magadhānaṁ giribbaje.in the Mountainfold of the Magadhans.
6.1Yato ca ariyasaccāni,But then, with right understanding,6.2sammappaññāya passati;one sees the noble truths—6.3Dukkhaṁ dukkhasamuppādaṁ,suffering, suffering’s origin,6.4dukkhassa ca atikkamaṁ;suffering’s transcendence,6.5Ariyaṁ caṭṭhaṅgikaṁ maggaṁ,and the noble eightfold path6.6dukkhūpasamagāminaṁ.that leads to the stilling of suffering.
7.1PTS 2.186Sa sattakkhattuṁparamaṁ,After roaming on seven times at most,7.2sandhāvitvāna puggalo;that individual7.3Dukkhassantakaro hoti,makes an end of suffering,7.4sabbasaṁyojanakkhayā”ti.with the ending of all fetters.”
7.5Dasamaṁ.
7.6Paṭhamo vaggo.
8.0Tassuddānaṁ
8.1Tiṇakaṭṭhañca pathavī,8.2assu khīrañca pabbataṁ;8.3Sāsapā sāvakā gaṅgā,8.4daṇḍo ca puggalena cāti.