# Mahāsudassana Sutta

> 17th sutta in Digha Nikaya: Ananda asks the Buddha to die in a big city rather than the village Kusināra; the Buddha replies that it was once a big city in which he ruled as King Mahāsudassana in a past life, and details the past splendor of the city

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