The Pali root restores this vagga's own full sixfold chain for the first time since SN 35.55 — but Sujato's own English still compresses it to a single line
Length
a few seconds to read (in English); the Pali root itself runs to seventeen segments
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
★★☆☆☆ — a real content point (root versus translation) hiding inside an apparently bare page
Why this discourse
This discourse completes the underlying tendencies' own pair and, with it, this vagga's own run of pahāna/samugghāta pairs (fetters, defilements, underlying tendencies — ignorance alone, at SN 35.53, never received a matching uprooting discourse of its own). Its own Pali root restores the full sixfold sense-field chain in seventeen segments, confirming (as SN 35.55 already showed) that anattato, not aniccato, is this vagga's own lens for every samugghāta discourse. But Sujato's own English translation does not follow the root's own restoration: it compresses the entire discourse to a single elided sentence, exactly as SN 35.56 through SN 35.58 were compressed — the same “root fuller than its own English translation” divergence this project already met at SN 35.33, now recurring here.
Reading guide
A pair completes, and with it, three pairs entire
Fetters, defilements, and now the underlying tendencies each receive both a “giving up” and an “uprooting” discourse — only ignorance, this vagga's own opening target, stands without a matching uprooting companion.
The root restores; the translation still does not
Seventeen Pali segments spell out the full six-field chain here, exactly as SN 35.53 first did — but Sujato's own English collapses all of it into one elided sentence, the same divergence this project already traced at SN 35.33.
Not-self, confirmed a second time
The restored Pali root specifies anattato throughout, confirming beyond SN 35.55 alone that every “uprooting” discourse in this vagga runs on not-self rather than impermanence.
Key terms
anusaya — underlying tendency — this discourse's own target, completing this vagga's own fourth pair
samugghāta — uprooting — this discourse's own verb
anattato — as not-self — confirmed here for a second time as this vagga's own lens for every uprooting discourse
peyyāla — formula-repetition — the mark Sujato's own English still uses here, even where the Pali root does not
saṁyojana — fetter — cross-referenced back to SN 35.55, the first confirmed anattato discourse
The text
The discourse exactly as Sujato's own English gives it: a single elided sentence, even though the Pali root itself restores the full sixfold chain in seventeen segments. Translation: Bhikkhu Sujato (CC0, SuttaCentral).
§1“Sir, how does one know and see so that the underlying tendencies are uprooted?” …
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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
What does this discourse complete, alongside SN 35.55 and SN 35.57 before it?
Correct: A. Only ignorance, at SN 35.53, stands without a matching uprooting companion.
Question 2 of 5
What does this discourse's own Pali root do that SN 35.56-58's own root files do not?
Correct: A. The first full Pali restoration in this vagga since SN 35.55.
Question 3 of 5
Does Sujato's own English translation follow the Pali root's own restoration here?
Correct: A. The “root fuller than translation” divergence this project already met at SN 35.33.
Question 4 of 5
What lens does the restored Pali root confirm for this discourse?
Correct: A. Confirming, for a second time in this vagga, that uprooting discourses run on not-self.
Question 5 of 5
Which earlier discourse in this book already showed the same root-fuller-than-translation divergence?
Correct: A. Jātidhammavagga's own single merged file, where the English similarly compressed more than the Pali root.
