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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: 51 of 105
url: https://scriptura.si/works/pali-samyutta-nikaya-5/51/
cite: "The Buddha, tr. Bhikkhu Sujato, Linked Discourses V: The Great Book · Saṁyutta Nikāya · Mahāvagga, section 51. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/pali-samyutta-nikaya-5/51/"
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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.

## 51. Another Chapter of Abbreviated Texts on the Ganges · SN 48.125–136–48.147–158

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/pali-samyutta-nikaya-5/51/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/pali-samyutta-nikaya-5/51/#p-N

[¶0] SN 48.125–136 · Another on Sloping East, Etc.

> Pali: SN 48.125–136 · Punapācīnādisutta

[¶1] “Mendicants, the Ganges River slants, slopes, and inclines to the east. In the same way, a mendicant developing and cultivating the five faculties slants, slopes, and inclines to extinguishment.

> Pali: “Seyyathāpi, bhikkhave, gaṅgā nadī pācīnaninnā pācīnapoṇā pācīnapabbhārā; evameva kho, bhikkhave, bhikkhu pañcindriyāni bhāvento pañcindriyāni bahulīkaronto nibbānaninno hoti nibbānapoṇo nibbānapabbhāro.

[¶2] How so? It’s when a mendicant develops the faculties of faith, energy, mindfulness, immersion, and wisdom, which culminate in the removal of greed, hate, and delusion. That’s how a mendicant developing and cultivating the five faculties slants, slopes, and inclines to extinguishment.”

> Pali: Kathañca, bhikkhave, bhikkhu pañcindriyāni bhāvento pañcindriyāni bahulīkaronto nibbānaninno hoti nibbānapoṇo nibbānapabbhāro? Idha, bhikkhave, bhikkhu saddhindriyaṁ bhāveti rāgavinayapariyosānaṁ dosavinayapariyosānaṁ mohavinayapariyosānaṁ …pe… paññindriyaṁ bhāveti rāgavinayapariyosānaṁ dosavinayapariyosānaṁ mohavinayapariyosānaṁ. Evaṁ kho, bhikkhave, bhikkhu pañcindriyāni bhāvento pañcindriyāni bahulīkaronto nibbānaninno hoti nibbānapoṇo nibbānapabbhāro”ti.

[¶3] > Pali: Dvādasamaṁ.

[¶4] > Pali: Gaṅgāpeyyālavaggo terasamo.

[¶5] > Pali: Tassuddānaṁ

[¶6] Six on slanting to the east,
and six on slanting to the ocean;
these two sixes make twelve,
and that’s how this chapter is recited.

> Pali: Cha pācīnato ninnā,
cha ninnā ca samuddato;
Dvete cha dvādasa honti,
vaggo tena pavuccatīti.

[¶7] SN 48.137–146 · Another Chapter on Diligence

> Pali: SN 48.137–146 · Punaappamādavagga

[¶8] (This text consists of the title only. Tell in full as in SN 45.139–148, removal of greed version.)

> Pali: On Display: Title of Section Only

[¶9] SN 48.147–158 · Another Chapter on Hard Work

> Pali: SN 48.147–158 · Punabalakaraṇīyavagga

[¶10] (This text consists of the title only. Tell in full as in SN 45.149–160, removal of greed version.)

> Pali: On Display: Title of Section Only