“Just as the eldest son of a wheel-turning monarch properly k…”

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“Just as the eldest son of a wheel-turning monarch properly keeps in motion the wheel of sovereignty set in motion by his father, so do you, Sāriputta, properly keep in motion the Wheel of Dhamma set in motion by me.”

— Buddha

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Title: Wikiquote: Gautama Buddha
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Context

Vangisasamyutta, as translated by (2000), p. 287

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Buddha. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Gautama Buddha. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gautama_Buddha

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