The sixteenth sutta of the Dīghanikāya. It contains a more or less detailed account of the last year of the Buddha’s life. It also contains, besides other matters:

a prophecy of the greatness of Pāṭaliputta,

the contemplated attack on the Vajjī by Ajātasattu,

details of the seven conditions of welfare of the Order,

the lineage of faith (ariyavaṃsa),

eight causes of earthquakes,

the last meal of the Buddha,

the four places of pilgrimage,

the four great authorities (mahāpadesā),

the obsequies of a king,

the erection of shrines (cetiya),

the previous history of Kusinārā,

the Buddha’s death and cremation,

the distribution of the Relics by Doṇa, and

the erection of the Thūpas over the Relics. D.ii.72 ff.