The Buddha addressing the mendicants (by cross-reference)
Form
A single explicit editorial instruction standing in for sixteen separate sutta-numbers
Length
Under a minute to read
Northern parallel
A rough counterpart may exist in the Chinese Saṃyukta-āgama (T99), though this reading guide does not assert a specific matching sutra number
Difficulty
★☆☆☆☆ — trivial on its own, meaningful only in relation to Sotāpattivagga
Why this discourse
The most extreme compression this saṃyutta has shown so far: sixteen sutta-numbers (SN 24.20–35, views 2 through 17 of this vagga's own second round) collapsed into a single bilara-data file holding just one line of editorial instruction, rather than either full elaboration or even SN 24.11–17's own bare-question treatment.
Reading guide
An instruction, not a discourse
"Tell these in full as in discourses 2 through 17 of the previous chapter" (Purimavagge viya aṭṭhārasa veyyākaraṇāni vitthāretabbānīti) — this single sentence is the entirety of this merged file's content: not a restatement of any view, but a direct editorial pointer back to Sotāpattivagga's own second through seventeenth discourses (this-is-mine through the cosmos finite/infinite and soul-body pairs).
Sixteen discourses, one line
Where SN 24.11–17 each still preserved their own bare opening claim, these sixteen sutta-numbers preserve nothing view-specific at all — the compiler trusts the reader to supply not just the aggregate catechism but the sixteen individual claims themselves, purely by cross-reference to the vagga already read.
A different encoding from SN 23's merged files
Unlike SN 23.23–33 or SN 23.35–45, whose merged files preserve each sub-discourse's own individual key prefix internally (sn23.24:, sn23.25:, and so on), this file uses a single unified prefix (sn24.20-35:) for its entire five-key content — the same encoding convention already seen at SN 12.72–81, but taken to a further extreme of compression: only one content key total, rather than one key per sub-discourse.
Confirming this vagga's own eighteen-topic count
This instruction's own wording — "the eighteen expositions" (aṭṭhārasa veyyākaraṇāni) — independently confirms SN 24.18's own closing colophon, verifying from a second, later source that Sotāpattivagga comprises exactly eighteen discourses, not some other figure.
Key terms
purimavagge viya — "as in the previous vagga" — this instruction's own explicit cross-reference back to Sotāpattivagga
aṭṭhārasa veyyākaraṇāni — the eighteen expositions — this instruction's own confirmation of Sotāpattivagga's full discourse count, matching SN 24.18's colophon
vitthāretabbāni — "should be told in full" — the instruction's own directive, trusting the reader to reconstruct sixteen full discourses from one line
peyyāla — an elision mark — here compressing sixteen sutta-numbers to their most extreme point in this saṃyutta so far
dutiyagamana — the second round — the reason these sixteen sutta-numbers exist at all, restating Sotāpattivagga's own second-through-seventeenth discourses
The text
The complete merged file: a single editorial instruction standing in for sixteen sutta-numbers. Translation: Bhikkhu Sujato (CC0, SuttaCentral).
§1(Tell these in full as in discourses 2 through 17 of the previous chapter.)
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Self-check quiz
Ten questions. Click an answer to see immediate feedback. No score is recorded — this is for your own checking.
Question 1 of 10
What does this merged file's single line of content actually say?
Correct: A. A direct editorial pointer, not a restatement of any view.
Question 2 of 10
How many sutta-numbers does this single merged file compress?
Correct: A. Views 2 through 17 of this vagga's own second round through the catalog.
Question 3 of 10
How does this file's compression compare to SN 24.11–17's own bare-question treatment?
Correct: A. SN 24.11–17 each preserved their own opening claim; this file preserves none.
Question 4 of 10
How does this file's key encoding differ from SN 23.23–33's own merged file?
Correct: A. The same unified-prefix convention seen at SN 12.72–81, taken to a further extreme here.
Question 5 of 10
What does this instruction's own wording independently confirm?
Correct: A. A second, independent confirmation of the eighteen-discourse figure.
Question 6 of 10
What sixteen views does this cross-reference stand in for?
Correct: A. Sotāpattivagga's own second through seventeenth discourses.
Question 7 of 10
What discourses bracket this merged file in Dutiyagamanavagga's own sequence?
Correct: A. The vagga's own first and eighteenth topics, both given individual full treatment.
Question 8 of 10
Where is this file's content nominally set, by cross-reference?
Correct: A. Matching Sotāpattivagga's own setting, inherited by cross-reference.
Question 9 of 10
How many total content keys does this merged file's translation contain?
Correct: A. The most extreme compression this saṃyutta has shown so far.
Question 10 of 10
What convention does this project follow when a merged file compresses this severely?
Correct: A. Matching this project's standing practice for peyyāla-compressed ranges.
