Pāli Dictionary
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Compound structure

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bahuvedaniyasutta
  1. bahu

    many; much; abundant; (as noun) a large quantity, many people; (as adverb) greatly, very much

  2. vedaniya

    could be felt; experienceable; tangible

  3. sutta

    discourse (of the Buddha); sutta; sacred text (first of the nine limbs of the teaching)

Encyclopedia

Bahuvedanīya Sutta
Sutta

  • A discourse resolving a disagreement between two disciples over how many kinds of feeling the Buddha teaches — two or three — in which the Buddha explains that both answers are correct depending on the classification used, and ranks sensual pleasure well below the deeper pleasures attained through meditative absorption.

MN 59

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