Pāli Dictionary

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  • A discourse taught at Sāketa explaining how the five spiritual faculties and the five spiritual powers name the same qualities, a title later also attached to a debate among monks there over whether a single volitional act produces one moment of conception or many, resolved by elders skilled in the Abhidhamma using the image of a mango sprouting only one shoot.

SN 48.43

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