Hello Ruwan,

You can find it in Digha Nikaya III.

I you read French I made a translation of large
passages of the Agganna in colums with the pa;i text
facing more or less the French. Formats are .odt (Open
Office) and .pdf.

Metta

Jacques
--- dkotschessa <dkotschessa@...> wrote:

> --- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, "ruwanr2003"
> <ruwanr2003@...> wrote:
> >
> > I need the help of the educated group here to
> clearly understand
> the
> > following verse in Aganna sutta. How can I find
> the original pali
> > verses of the following translation?
> >
> >
> > "Now there comes a time, Vasettha, when after a
> long period of time
> > this world expands. When the world expands beings
> > for the most part fall from the realm of Radiance
> and come here;
> and
> > they exist made of mind, feeding on joy,
> self-luminous, moving
> > through the air, constantly beautiful; thus they
> remain for a
> long,
> > long time. Now at that time, all had become one
> world of water
> dark,
> > and of darkness that maketh blind. No moon nor sun
> appeared no
> stars
> > were seen, nor constellations, neither was night
> manifest nor day,
> > neither months nor half-months, neither years nor
> seasons, neither
> > female nor male. Beings were reckoned just as
> beings only. And to
> > those beings, Vasettha, sooner or later after a
> long time, earth
> with
> > its savors was spread out in the waters. Even as a
> scum forms on
> the
> > surface of boiled milky rice that is cooling, so
> did the earth
> > appear. ~ Aganna Sutta"
> >
> > Thanks
> > Mettha
> >
> > Ruwan
>
>
> Interesting! In my search I found this is not a
> very popular sutta.
> Not a surprising fact, given the Buddha's
> admonitions against
> discussion creation theory and the like. I believe
> it may have
> questionable origins. (no pun intended)
>
> Nevertheless, in searching for it, I had the
> opposite problem as you -
> I found the Pali version but no english
> translation:
>
>

http://www.mettanet.org/tipitaka/2Sutta-Pitaka/1Digha-

> Nikaya/Digha3/27-agganna-p.html
>
>
>

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