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1.41 Sirivaḍḍha#

Lightning lands on the cleft between Vebhāra & Paṇḍava,1 but, having gone to the cleft in the mountains, he’s absorbed in jhāna2—the son of the one without compare, the one who is Such.3

Notes#

  1. Mountains near Rājagaha. ↩︎

  2. Meditative absorption, one of the four levels of intense concentration that constitute right concentration in the noble eightfold path. ↩︎

  3. Such (tādin): an epithet for an arahant, indicating that his/her attainment is indefinable and not subject to change. ↩︎

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