{"id":"an4.156","title":"Eons","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an4.156","title":"Eons","units":[{"id":"an4.156:0","sourceIds":["an4.156:0.1","an4.156:0.2","an4.156:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 4.156\n16. Indriyavagga\nKappasutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 4.156\n16. Faculties\nEons"}},{"id":"an4.156:1","sourceIds":["an4.156:1.1","an4.156:1.2","an4.156:1.3","an4.156:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Cattārimāni, bhikkhave, kappassa asaṅkhyeyyāni.\nKatamāni cattāri?\nYadā, bhikkhave, kappo saṁvaṭṭati, taṁ na sukaraṁ saṅkhātuṁ—\nettakāni vassānīti vā, ettakāni vassasatānīti vā, ettakāni vassasahassānīti vā, ettakāni vassasatasahassānīti vā.","en":"“Mendicants, an eon contains four uncountable periods.\nWhat four?\nWhen an eon contracts, it’s not easy to calculate\nhow many years, how many hundreds or thousands or hundreds of thousands of years it takes."}},{"id":"an4.156:2","sourceIds":["an4.156:2.1","an4.156:2.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yadā, bhikkhave, kappo saṁvaṭṭo tiṭṭhati, taṁ na sukaraṁ saṅkhātuṁ—\nettakāni vassānīti vā, ettakāni vassasatānīti vā, ettakāni vassasahassānīti vā, ettakāni vassasatasahassānīti vā.","en":"When an eon remains fully contracted, it’s not easy to calculate\nhow many years, how many hundreds or thousands or hundreds of thousands of years it takes."}},{"id":"an4.156:3","sourceIds":["an4.156:3.1","an4.156:3.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yadā, bhikkhave, kappo vivaṭṭati, taṁ na sukaraṁ saṅkhātuṁ—\nettakāni vassānīti vā, ettakāni vassasatānīti vā, ettakāni vassasahassānīti vā, ettakāni vassasatasahassānīti vā.","en":"When an eon expands, it’s not easy to calculate\nhow many years, how many hundreds or thousands or hundreds of thousands of years it takes."}},{"id":"an4.156:4","sourceIds":["an4.156:4.1","an4.156:4.2","an4.156:4.3","an4.156:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yadā, bhikkhave, kappo vivaṭṭo tiṭṭhati, taṁ na sukaraṁ saṅkhātuṁ—\nettakāni vassānīti vā, ettakāni vassasatānīti vā, ettakāni vassasahassānīti vā, ettakāni vassasatasahassānīti vā.\nImāni kho, bhikkhave, cattāri kappassa asaṅkhyeyyānī”ti.\nChaṭṭhaṁ.","en":"When an eon remains fully expanded, it’s not easy to calculate\nhow many years, how many hundreds or thousands or hundreds of thousands of years it takes.\nThese are the four uncountable periods of an eon.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an4.156/en/sujato","licence":"CC0 1.0","licenceUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","editionNote":"Full supplied source file; inherited abbreviations are preserved. Not a reconstructed expansion of every repetition. No Malay or Mandarin translation is implied."}