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  • クシナーラー近郊でアーナンダに説かれたこの経で、仏陀はこの質素な町がかつて転輪聖王マハースダッサナの華麗な王都クサーヴァティーであったことを明かす。転輪王の七宝を持っていた彼は後にその栄華を捨てて高い精神生活を実践した

  • A discourse taught to Ānanda near Kusinārā in which the Buddha reveals that the humble town was once Kusāvatī, the splendid royal city of the great wheel-turning monarch Mahāsudassana, who possessed the seven treasures of a Cakkavatti and eventually renounced his glory to practise the higher spiritual life.

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