• Sakkapañha Sutta

The twenty first of the Dígha Nikáya (D.ii.263 89). Sakka visits the Buddha at the Indasálaguhá in Vediyagiri, and, having obtained leave from the Buddha through Pañcasikha, asks a series of fourteen questions on the causes of

• malice and avarice,
• favour and disfavour,
• of desire,
• of mental preoccupation,
• obsession (papañca),
• happiness (somanassa),
• sorrow (domanassa),
• equanimity,
• good behaviour of body and speech (as enjoined in the Pátimokkha),
• right pursuit (pariyesaná),
• control of the sense faculties,
• the presence of divers persuasions (aneka-dhátu), and
• failure in attaining the right ideal.

For details of this visit see Sakka. A summary of the Sutta is given at DA.iii.738.

The Sutta also contains the story of the Sákiyan maiden Gopiká. Sakka is greatly pleased with the Buddha's answers, and, together with eighty thousand devas, becomes a sotápanna.

In order to show his gratitude to Pañcasikha, he obtains for him as his wife, Timbarús daughter, Bhaddá Suriyavaccasá.

The sutta is quoted by name at S.iii.13.

Buddhaghosa says that the sutta comes under the Vedalla division. DA.i.24; also Gv.67.