Page 46 - ENG Edition Ver2

43

ascetic named Pāṭika who boasted on reaching omniscience and could

show miraculous power. He was the one worshipped by Sunakkhatta as

the excellent Arahant. When Pāṭikaputta challenged the Buddha to

compete miraculous power presentation; the Buddha said Pāṭikaputta
would not be able to come if still kept his own wrong view. When the

Buddha asked whether or not he was explained on these 3 situations and

the answer was it was done, then the Buddha warned him, he got angry
and quit monkhood before leaving away.

On the matter of world genesis, the Buddha explained to Bhaggava he

thoroughly penetrated all the origin how it was and was going. The

Buddha told there were 5 concepts of theory of genesis according to that

time inquiry. The Buddha said the penetrated knowledge realized he
knew better and profoundly than any theories explained. But because of

no adherence to those, he had reached the Final Goal from these

adherent matters.

Word Order of the Translated Text

The word order of language structure in Pāṭikasutta involves narrative style of

writing. The beginning of each Sutta is formulated the same as all Suttas, that is

beginning with Venerable Ānanda saying “Evaṃ me sutaṃ (Thus / I / have heard/).”
What Venerable Ānanda explained or told was related to the saying of the Buddha

given to Sunakkhatta. One example cited (no.10 of Pāli, Thai alphabets or no.81-82

of Pāli, Romanized alphabets) was the question and answer between the Buddha and
Bhaggava as follows:

Romanized Pāli:

“Atha kho bhaggava, sunakkhatto licchavīpatto / yeṅahaṃ /

tenupasaṅkāmi. Upasaṅkamitvā maṃ abhivādetvā ekamantaṃ

nisīdi. Ekamantaṃ nisinnaṃ kho dhaṃ, bhaggava,
sunakkhattaṃ licchavīputtaṃ etada vocaṃ

tam kimmaññasi sunakkhatta?”