Sotāpattisaṅyuta

Suttapiṭaka · Saṁyuttanikāya · Mahāvaggasaṁyutta · Vol. 19 · Section 1411

[1411] At Sāvatthī. There the Blessed One said this: "Bhikkhus, even though a wheel-turning king (rājā cakkavatti), having exercised sovereign lordship and rulership over the four continents, with the breaking up of the body, after death, is reborn in a good destination, a heavenly world, in companionship with the devas of Tāvatiṃsa; and though there, in the Nandana Grove, surrounded by a company of celestial nymphs, he amuses himself, supplied and endowed with the five divine cords of sensual pleasure (kāmaguṇa); and though he is endowed with four dhammas — still he is not freed from hell, not freed from the animal realm, not freed from the domain of ghosts (pittivisaya), not freed from the plane of misery, the bad destination, the lower world."

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.