Soḷasamāṇavakapañhāniddesa

Suttapiṭaka · Khuddakanikāya · Cūḷaniddesa · Vol. 30 · Section 660

[660] **"For which there is no simile anywhere"** (yassa natthi upamā kvaci): **"For which"** (yassa) — that is, for Nibbāna. **"There is no simile"**: there is no simile, there is no comparison, there is no equal, there is no counterpart; it does not exist, it is not to be found⁷ — hence, "there is no simile." **"Anywhere"** (kvaci): anywhere, in anything, in any place — internally, or externally, or both internally and externally. Hence, "for which there is no simile anywhere." --- *Variant readings (apparatus of the Siam Raṭṭha page; notes 1–6 refer to adjacent passages on the same page):* ¹ M(yanmar ed.): *asaṃhīraṃ*; so too below. ² M: *sabbāsavehi sabbadarathehi*. ³ M: *nibbānaṃ*. ⁴ M: *nibbānassa* … ⁵ M: *na*. ⁶ M: *aññathattaṃ*. ⁷ M: these two readings (*na saṃvijjati nupalabbhati*) are absent.

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.

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