Four discourses, each keeping its own individual key prefix rather than sharing one unified prefix
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 once SN 34.41–45's own pattern is understood
Why this discourse
This merged file opens territory's own combinatorial set, pairing gocara ("territory") against each of the four qualities that follow it — projecting, carefulness, persistence, and conducive. Unlike the unified-prefix encoding at SN 34.20–45, bilara-data switches back here to per-sutta-prefix encoding, each of this file's four sub-discourses keeping its own individual key — the same mixed-encoding pattern already observed within Vacchagottasaṃyutta.
Reading guide
A return to per-sutta-prefix encoding
Each of this file's four sub-discourses (sn34.46:, sn34.47:, sn34.48:, sn34.49:) keeps its own individual key prefix, rather than sharing SN 34.20–45's own unified-prefix convention — confirming this saṃyutta, like SN 33 before it, mixes both known encoding conventions across its own merged files.
Four pairings, three given some surviving content
Unlike SN 34.35–45's own single-pairing-only shape, this file preserves a full opening line for the first three sub-discourses (projecting, carefulness, persistence), with only the fourth (conducive) reduced to its own bare pairing.
Sixth of ten anchors, four more still to come
With entering, remaining, emerging, gladdening, and supports all complete, territory opens the sixth of this saṃyutta's own ten combinatorial anchors.
A four-discourse set, matching the -kārī trio's own scale
Territory's own remaining pairings (projecting, carefulness, persistence, conducive) happen to include all three members of this saṃyutta's -kārī cluster, confirming that cluster's own three qualities sit consecutively at the end of this saṃyutta's ten-quality list.
Key terms
gocara — territory — this combinatorial set's own shared anchor quality
abhinīhāra — projecting — the first quality named in this file, paired against territory
ārammaṇa — supports — already paired with territory at SN 34.41–45, excluded from this file's own four pairings
sappāyakārī — doing what's conducive — the fourth and final quality named in this file, closing territory's own set
peyyāla — an elision mark — here compressing four sub-discourses, three with partial surviving content
The text
The complete merged file: territory paired against projecting, carefulness, persistence, and conducive, exactly as bilara-data preserves each. Translation: Bhikkhu Sujato (CC0, SuttaCentral).
§1At Sāvatthī. “One meditator is skilled in the territory of immersion but not in projecting the mind purified by immersion. …”
§2“One meditator is skilled in the territory of immersion but not in practicing carefully for it. …”
§3(These four discourses should be told in full as the previous set.)
§4“One meditator is skilled in the territory of immersion but not in practicing persistently for it. …”
§5“One meditator is skilled in the territory of immersion but not in doing what’s conducive to it. …”
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Self-check quiz
5 questions. Click an answer to see immediate feedback. No score is recorded — this is for your own checking.
Question 1 of 5
How many discourses does this single merged file compress?
Correct: A. Territory's own combinatorial set against the four qualities that follow it.
Question 2 of 5
How does this file's key encoding compare to SN 34.20–45's own?
Correct: A. Confirming this saṃyutta mixes both known encoding conventions, as SN 33 did before it.
Question 3 of 5
Which qualities does territory pair against in this file?
Correct: A. The four qualities that follow territory in this saṃyutta's own sequence.
Question 4 of 5
What do these four qualities happen to include, confirming an earlier observation?
Correct: A. Confirming those three qualities' own consecutive position in the full ten-quality list.
Question 5 of 5
How many of this saṃyutta's own ten combinatorial anchors are complete after this file?
