Vekhanasasutta

Suttapiṭaka · Majjhimanikāya · Vol. 13 · Section 396

[396] "What do you think, Kaccāna? Of these two splendors, which splendor is the more excellent and the more sublime: the morning star (osadhitārakā) in a clear, cloudless sky at the time of dawn in the night, or the moon at exact midnight in a clear, cloudless sky on that fifteenth-day Uposatha?" "Worthy Gotama, of these two splendors, the moon at exact midnight in a clear, cloudless sky on that fifteenth-day Uposatha is the more excellent and the more sublime."

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.

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