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Thag 1.90 · Sāmidattattheragāthā

Young plants growing beneath a broad old tree.

The five aggregates are fully understood; they remain, but their root is cut. Transmigration through births is finished, now there’ll be no more future lives.

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Translation by Bhikkhu Sujato and Jessica Walton · SuttaCentral · CC0

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