SN 32 on cloud devas

valāhaka samyutta

Saṃyutta Nikāya 32 of 56

Translated by: Bhikkhu Sujato
Read by: Roland Kitchen

Description

The “Linked Discourses on Cloud Gods” is the last of four similar sections dealing with the modes in which various semi-celestial beings may be reborn. The current chapter is on the “cloud gods” or valāhakas, who are deities of the weather controlling the clouds.