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title: "Linked Discourses V: The Great Book · Saṁyutta Nikāya · Mahāvagga"
author: "The Buddha"
translator: "Bhikkhu Sujato"
languages: [pi, en]
shelf: "Pali Canon"
section: 36 of 105
url: https://scriptura.si/works/pali-samyutta-nikaya-5/36/
cite: "The Buddha, tr. Bhikkhu Sujato, Linked Discourses V: The Great Book · Saṁyutta Nikāya · Mahāvagga, section 36. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/pali-samyutta-nikaya-5/36/"
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# Linked Discourses V: The Great Book · Saṁyutta Nikāya · Mahāvagga

*The Buddha, tr. Bhikkhu Sujato*

The path: the noble eightfold path, the factors of awakening, mindfulness meditation, breathing, and the first teaching, Turning the Wheel of Dhamma.

> Pali: the Mahāsaṅgīti Tipiṭaka (Buddha Jayanti edition, 2500), from SuttaCentral’s bilara-data, dedicated to the public domain (CC0).

> English: Bhikkhu Sujato, from SuttaCentral’s bilara-data, dedicated to the public domain (CC0). Notes are not included.

> Rows follow the segment numbers the two texts share, gathered into paragraphs; verse keeps its lines.

## 36. Hard Work · SN 47.73–84

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/pali-samyutta-nikaya-5/36/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/pali-samyutta-nikaya-5/36/#p-N

[¶0] SN 47.73–84 · Hard Work, Etc.

> Pali: SN 47.73–84 · Balādisutta

[¶1] “Mendicants, all the hard work that gets done depends on the earth and is grounded on the earth. …”

> Pali: “Seyyathāpi, bhikkhave, ye keci balakaraṇīyā kammantā karīyantī”ti

[¶2] (Tell in full as in SN 45.149–160.)

> Pali: vitthāretabbaṁ.

[¶3] > Pali: Balakaraṇīyavaggo aṭṭhamo.

[¶4] > Pali: Tassuddānaṁ

[¶5] Hard work, seeds, and dragons,
a tree, a pot, and a spike,
the atmosphere, and two on clouds,
a ship, a guest house, and a river.

> Pali: Balaṁ bījañca nāgo ca,
rukkho kumbhena sūkiyā;
Ākāsena ca dve meghā,
nāvā āgantukā nadīti.