three knowledges that comprised the Buddhaâs Awakening: knowledge of previous lives, knowledge of how beings pass away and are reborn in the various levels of being, and knowledge of the ending of the effluents that maintain the process of birth (see MN 4). Itâs in this verse that the Buddha redefines the three knowledges claimed by Vṅseṭṭha and Bhṅradvṅja, showing that they donât qualify as masters of the three knowledges that constitute the knowledge of a genuine brahman in his eyes. 12. Here, of course, the Buddha is referring to the three knowledges as defined by him, not as earlier defined by Vṅseṭṭha. 13. Sakka is the chief of the devas of the heaven of the Thirty-three. - --> - - - -