dn18:1.0 1. Declaring the Rebirths of People From Ñātika and Elsewhere
dn18:1.1 So I have heard.
dn18:1.2 At one time the Buddha was staying at Ñātika in the brick house.
dn18:1.3 Now at that time the Buddha was explaining the rebirths of devotees all over the nations; the Kāsis and Kosalans, Vajjis and Mallas, Cetīs and Vacchas, Kurus and Pañcālas, Macchas and Sūrasenas:
dn18:1.4 “This one was reborn here, while that one was reborn there.
dn18:1.5 Over fifty devotees in Ñātika have passed away having ended the five lower fetters. They’ve been reborn spontaneously, and will be extinguished there, not liable to return from that world.
dn18:1.6 More than ninety devotees in Ñātika have passed away having ended three fetters, and weakened greed, hate, and delusion. They’re once-returners, who will come back to this world once only, then make an end of suffering.
dn18:1.7 More than five hundred devotees in Ñātika have passed away having ended three fetters. They’re stream-enterers, not liable to be reborn in the underworld, assured, destined for awakening.”



