Mahā Parinibbānasutta untranslated

Mahā Parinibbānasutta. The sixteenth Sutta of the Dīghanikāya. It contains a more or less detailed account of the last year of the Buddha’s life. It also contains, besides other matter,

• a prophecy of the greatness of Pāṭaliputta and
• the contemplated attack on the Vajjians by Ajātasattu,
• details of the seven conditions of welfare of the Saṅgha,
• the lineage of faith (ariyavaṁsa),
• eight causes of earthquake,
• the last meal of the Buddha,
• the four places of pilgrimage,
• the four great authorities (mahāpadesa),
• the obsequies of a king,
• the erection of cetiyas,
• the previous history of Kusinārā,
• the Buddha’s death and cremation,
• the distribution of the Relics by Doṇa, and
• the erection of the Thūpas over the Relics. DN.ii.72ff.

Mahā Parivāra Thera. An Arahant. In the time of Vipassī Buddha he was a Yakkha chief and, seeing the Buddha enter Bandhumatī with a large following of monks, offered his upper garment and worshipped him. The earth trembled with the force of his wish. Fifteen kappas ago he was king sixteen times under the name of Vāhana (Ap.i.146f). He is probably identical with Pakkha Thera. Thag­a.i.144f.