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  • The twenty-first discourse of the Dīghanikāya, in which Sakka visits the Buddha at the Indasāla cave and, through a chain of fourteen questions tracing quarrels back to envy and avarice, becomes a Stream-winner along with eighty thousand devas.

DN 21
  • A discourse in which Sakka visits the Buddha at Gijjhakūṭa and asks why only some beings attain full liberation in this life, receiving the answer that it is due to grasping.

SN 35.118

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