Completed - 13 August 2001

Pali Tipitaka > Sutta Pitaka > Anguttara Nikaya > Sattaka Nipata > Aggikkhandhopama Sutta

Click on the link to read [AN07-068 Aggikkhandhopama Sutta - The Mass of Fire Comparison] in English only.

Title
Aggi-kkhandh-opama sutta.m
fire / mass of / comparison / instruction
The Mass of Fire Comparison

• aggi - fire.
• khandha - the body of, a collection of, mass, or parts of.
• aggikkhandha - mass of fire, (< aggi + khandha with k doubled due to sandhi).
• upama - like, similar, equal, "coming up or nearly up to" in the names of suttas is sometimes translated as 'the simile of', like 'Vatthupama Sutta: The Simile of the Cloth' (literally vattha + upama "like cloth").

---

Contributors: Derek Cameron, Dimitry Ivakhnenko, Ong Teng Kee, Piya Tan

Many thanks to all the contributors for making this project a success.

[ next ]

contributed by the good folks at the Pali discussion group
[ http://www.tipitaka.net/maillist.htm ]