The 129th Sutta of the Majjhima Nikáya, preached at Jetavana.
It deals with the disabilities of folly and the pain and anguish resulting there from, also with the advantages of wisdom and the bliss to which it leads.
It contains, besides, descriptions of the horrors of the hells, expressed by means of various similes (M.iii.163ff.; cp. S.ii.23f).
The Sutta forms a kind of prose background to the Bála Vagga and the Pandita Vagga of the Dhammapada.
Mahinda preached this Sutta at the Nandapavana in Anurádhapura, and one thousand women, who listened to him, became sotápannas. Mhv.xv.4.