{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn15.20/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn15.20","id":"suttacentral_sn15.20","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn15.20/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"At one time the Buddha was staying near R\u0101jagaha, on the Vulture\u2019s Peak Mountain. There the Buddha addressed the mendicants, \u201cMendicants!\u201d \u201cVenerable sir,\u201d they replied. The Buddha said this: \u201cMendicants, this transmigration has no known beginning. No first point is found of sentient beings roaming and transmigrating, shrouded by ignorance and fettered by craving. Once upon a time, mendicants, this Mount Vepulla was known as P\u0101c\u012bnava\u1e41sa. And at that time people were known as Tivaras. The lifespan of the Tivaras was 40,000 years. It took them four days to climb Mount Vepulla, and four days to descend. At that time Kakusandha, the Blessed One, the perfected one, the fully awakened Buddha arose in the world. Kakusandha had a fine pair of chief disciples named Vidhura and Sa\u00f1j\u012bva. See, mendicants! This mountain\u2019s name has vanished, those people have passed away, and that Buddha has become fully quenched. So impermanent are conditions, so unstable are conditions, so unreliable are conditions. This is quite enough for you to become disillusioned, dispassionate, and freed regarding all conditions. Once upon a time this Mount Vepulla was known as Va\u1e45kaka. And at that time people were known as Rohitassas. The lifespan of the Rohitassas was 30,000 years. It took them three days to climb Mount Vepulla, and three days to descend. At that time Ko\u1e47\u0101gamana, the Blessed One, the perfected one, the fully awakened Buddha arose in the world. Ko\u1e47\u0101gamana had a fine pair of chief disciples named Bhiyyosa and Uttara. See, mendicants! This mountain\u2019s name has vanished, those people have passed away, and that Buddha has become fully quenched. So impermanent are conditions \u2026 Once upon a time this Mount Vepulla was known as Supassa. And at that time people were known as Suppiyas. The lifespan of the Suppiyas was 20,000 years. It took them two days to climb Mount Vepulla, and two days to descend. At that time Kassapa, the Blessed One, the perfected one, the fully awakened Buddha arose in the world. Kassapa had a fine pair of chief disciples named Tissa and Bh\u0101radv\u0101ja. See, mendicants! This mountain\u2019s name has vanished, those people have passed away, and that Buddha has become fully quenched. So impermanent are conditions \u2026 These days this Mount Vepulla is known as Vepulla. And these people are known as Magadhans. The lifespan of the Magadhans is short, brief, and fleeting. A long life is a hundred years or a little more. It takes the Magadhans an hour to climb Mount Vepulla, and an hour to descend. And now I am the Blessed One, the perfected one, the fully awakened Buddha who has arisen in the world. I have a fine pair of chief disciples named S\u0101riputta and Moggall\u0101na. There will come a time when this mountain\u2019s name will vanish, those people will die, and I will be fully extinguished. So impermanent are conditions, so unstable are conditions, so unreliable are conditions. This is quite enough for you to become disillusioned, dispassionate, and freed regarding all conditions.\u201d That is what the Buddha said. Then the Holy One, the Teacher, went on to say: \u201cFor the Tivaras it was P\u0101c\u012bnava\u1e41sa, for the Rohitassas, Va\u1e45kaka, Supassa for the Suppiyas, and Vepulla for the Magadhans. Oh! Conditions are impermanent, their nature is to rise and fall; having arisen, they cease; their settling is such bliss.\u201d The Linked Discourses on the unknown beginning are complete.","title":"Mount Vepulla","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":561}