Tipiṭaka

Theragāthā 41

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Verses of the Senior Monks 1.41

The Book of the Ones

Chapter Five

Sirivaḍḍha

1 Lightning flashes down

on the cleft of Vebhāra and Paṇḍava.

But in the mountain cleft he is absorbed in jhāna—

the son of the Buddha, inimitable and unaffected.

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Pali Canon of Theravāda Buddhism, Mahāsaṅgīti edition.

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