バーヴァリーの弟子プンナカが仏陀に問うた質問。快楽と称賛のために供犠を行う者がなぜ生と老いを免れないのか、そして寂静なる者と解脱した者のみがそれを成し遂げると説く仏陀の教え。

The questions put by Puṇṇaka, a pupil of Bāvarī, to the Buddha, concerning why those who make sacrifices for the sake of pleasure and praise fail to escape birth and decay, and the Buddha’s teaching that only the calm and the liberated succeed in doing so.