The Buddha addressing the mendicants (by cross-reference)
Form
A single explicit editorial instruction standing in for twenty-four 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 Dutiyagamanavagga
Why this discourse
The largest single sutta-number range this project has generated a page for since SN 12.82–213's Antarapeyyāla: twenty-four sutta-numbers (SN 24.46–69) compressed into one bilara-data file holding a single line of instruction, covering the entirety of Dutiyagamanavagga's own middle twenty-four topics — both its sixteen reused views and all eight of its own new additions — in one stroke.
Reading guide
A pointer spanning two different kinds of earlier material
"Tell in full as in discourses 20 through 43 of the second chapter" — this single instruction spans material Dutiyagamanavagga itself needed nine separate pages to present: SN 24.20–35's own sixteen-topic merged block (reused from Sotāpattivagga) and SN 24.37–43's seven of eight individually written new views, all now folded into this vagga's own single line.
Twenty-four discourses, one sentence
This is a further compression beyond even SN 24.20–35's own single-line treatment of sixteen topics: that file at least stood as its own dedicated merged range within Sotāpattivagga's own reuse; this file collapses material spanning two entirely different categories — reused old views and genuinely new ones — into one undifferentiated cross-reference.
The same unified-prefix encoding, once more
As with SN 24.20–35, this file uses a single unified key prefix (sn24.46-69:) for its entire four-key content, the same convention already seen at SN 12.72–81 and repeated here at an even larger scale.
This vagga's own minimal structure, confirmed
With this merged block bracketed by SN 24.45 and SN 24.70's own full treatments, Tatiyagamanavagga's entire twenty-six-topic catalog is covered by just three pages — the simplest structural shape any vagga in this saṃyutta has shown.
Key terms
dutiyapariyāye viya — "as in the second chapter" — this instruction's own explicit cross-reference back to Dutiyagamanavagga
catuvīsati — twenty-four — the number of sutta-numbers this single file compresses, the largest such range in this saṃyutta
vitthāretabbāni — "should be told in full" — the instruction's own directive, trusting the reader to reconstruct twenty-four full discourses from one line
peyyāla — an elision mark — here compressing twenty-four sutta-numbers, this saṃyutta's most extensive single range so far
tatiyagamana — the third round — the reason these twenty-four sutta-numbers exist at all, restating Dutiyagamanavagga's own full catalog
The text
The complete merged file: a single editorial instruction standing in for twenty-four sutta-numbers. Translation: Bhikkhu Sujato (CC0, SuttaCentral).
§1(Tell in full as in discourses 20 through 43 of the second 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 say?
Correct: A. A direct editorial pointer to Dutiyagamanavagga's own middle twenty-four topics.
Question 2 of 10
How many sutta-numbers does this single merged file compress?
Correct: A. The largest single range this project has generated a page for since SN 12.82–213's Antarapeyyāla.
Question 3 of 10
What two different kinds of earlier material does this single pointer span?
Correct: A. Material Dutiyagamanavagga itself needed nine separate pages to present.
Question 4 of 10
How does this file's compression compare to SN 24.20–35's own single-line treatment?
Correct: A. SN 24.20–35 stood as its own dedicated merged range; this file spans categories that were themselves once distinct.
Question 5 of 10
What encoding convention does this file share with SN 24.20–35 and SN 12.72–81?
Correct: A. The same unified-prefix convention, repeated here at an even larger scale.
Question 6 of 10
What discourses bracket this merged file in Tatiyagamanavagga's own sequence?
Correct: A. This vagga's own first and twenty-sixth topics, both given individual full treatment.
Question 7 of 10
How many total pages does Tatiyagamanavagga need to cover its full twenty-six-topic catalog?
Correct: A. The simplest structural shape any vagga in this saṃyutta has shown.
Question 8 of 10
Where is this file's content nominally set, by cross-reference?
Correct: A. Matching this saṃyutta'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 same minimal shape as SN 24.20–35's own merged file, applied to a larger range.
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 of any size.
