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Paca Mahnad
The Five Great Rivers
The map shown above is approx. 550 km from East to West and 400 km from North to South
from Udna 5-5: Uposathasutta (45)
Seyyath pi bhikkhave y kci mahnadiyo, seyyathda:
Just as, monks, whatever great rivers there are, that is to say:
Gag, Yamun, Aciravat, Sarabh, Mah,
The Gag, the Yamun, the Aciravat, the Sarabh, and the Mah,
t mahsamudda patv jahanti primni nmagottni,
having arrived at the great ocean, give up their former lineages and names,
mahsamuddo tveva sakha gacchanti,
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and are then designated as the great ocean,
evam-eva kho bhikkhave cattro me va:
so, monks, there are these four classes:
Khattiy, Brhma, Vess, Sudd, te Tathgatappavedite
o
Khattiyas, Brhmaas, Vessas, and Suddas, who, having gone forth
Dhammavinaye agrasm anagriya pabbajitv,
from the home to homelessness in the Dhamma and Discipline taught by the
Realised One,
jahanti purimni nmagottni,
give up their former lineages and names,
sama Sakyaputtiy tveva sakha gacchanti.
and are then designated as Sakyan ascetics.
Ya bhikkhave cattro me va:
That, monks, there are these four classes:
Khattiy, Brhma, Vess, Suddh, te Tathgatappavedite
Khattiyas, Brhmaas, Vessas, and Suddas, who, having gone forth
Dhammavinaye agrasm anagriya pabbajitv,
from the home to homelessness in the Dhamma and Discipline taught by the
Realised One,
jahanti purimni nmagottni,
give up their former lineages and names,
sama Sakyaputtiy tveva sakha gacchanti,
and are then designated as Sakyan ascetics,
ayam-pi bhikkhave imasmi Dhammavinaye catuttho
o
is the fourth wonderful and marvellous thing, monks,
acchariyo abbhutadhammo,
about this Dhamma and Discipline,
ya disv disv bhikkh imasmi Dhammavinaye abhiramanti.
which, having seen and considered, the monks delight in this Dhamma and
Discipline.

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