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explained by Vipassī Buddha. The content consisted of 3 verses: Khanti

(patience), Paramaṃ (ultimate), Topa (penance). The Principal Teaching

is the expression of each Buddha in Mahāpadānasutta, the Principal

Teaching of Vipassī Buddha is also the Principal Teaching explained by the
Buddha. This clarifies “What the Buddha taught” to be perceived by all

Buddhists.

Meaning and Understanding in Detail Existing in Mahāpadānasutta
Besides meaning and significance of Sutta name, content and word order

from the Sutta in this chapter, more detail about word by word translation for Pāli

words in English is also given. The objective of presenting word-by-word translation

system and techniques is to help these learners to understand more and precisely

the Dhamma existed.
The process of studying the meaning of Pāli text in form of word by word

translation has the following steps:

1. Understand and learn the meaning of Pāli scripture word-by-word.
2. Observe the word order in Pāli and compare with the present language

used.

3. Try to reorder the translated word to be comprehended in case the word

orders of the two languages are different.

4. Get each word translated and may re-paraphrase in pattern of the
modern English.

5. Set questions for both word meaning and content of the Sutta, then

answer to one self what advantage gained.

Practice Exercise: Answer and describe the answer from the following questions:

1. Study the word meaning of vocabulary from Mahāpadānasutta Pāli

version p.44 with mark (√) and then answer the questions:
1.1 What does it mean by “Vipassī Buddha considered all world

being”?

1.2 What are the names of lotuses explained in the chapter and then

give more details about those lotuses according to your
experience?