Bālapaṇḍitasutta untranslated

Bālapaṇḍitasutta. The 129th Sutta of the Majjhimanikāya, preached at Jetavana. It deals with the disabilities of folly and the pain and anguish resulting therefrom, also with the advantages of wisdom and the bliss to which it leads.

It contains, besides, descriptions of the horrors of the hells, expressed by means of various similes (MN.iii.163ff.; cp. SN.ii.23f).

The Sutta forms a kind of prose background to the Bālavagga and the Paṇḍitavagga of the Dhammapada.

Mahinda preached this Sutta at the Nandapavana in Anurādhapura, and one thousand women, who listened to him, became Sotāpannas. Mhv.xv.4.