The Five Perils of Bad Morality

Buta is appealing to the wealthy citizens of this new town. He says nothing about renunciation because he knows that it won't appeal to them. But amid all these undoubtedly later aditions, there's some genuinely fascinating stuff in the mahapari nibana suta that might very well date from the budha's life. The composers of the mahaparinibana suta wanted budha to be associated with the power of magada and specifically the war that made magada dominant part of the eastern gangetic plains.