Reading guide
Four floods, sharing terms with an earlier list
Sensuality, desire to be reborn, views, and ignorance — this fourfold list shares two terms (sensuality and desire to be reborn) with SN 38.8's own threefold āsava list, while adding views as a distinct fourth category not present there.
Key terms
kāmogho, bhavogho, diṭṭhogho, avijjogho — “the floods of sensuality, desire to be reborn, views, and ignorance” — this discourse's own complete, fourfold list
āvuso — “reverend, friend” — the reciprocal address term Jambukhādaka and Sāriputta use throughout this saṃyutta
pañhā — “question” — the recurring suffix naming every discourse's own Pali title throughout this saṃyutta
atthi... maggo atthi paṭipadā — “is there a path and a practice” — this saṃyutta's own recurring path-confirmation question, asked with only its object changing from SN 38.1 through SN 38.15
ekādasamaṁ — “eleventh” — this discourse's own untranslated closing ordinal
The text
The portion of this discourse Sujato's own English translation renders. Translation: Bhikkhu Sujato (CC0, SuttaCentral).
§1“Reverend Sāriputta, they speak of this thing called ‘a flood’. What is a flood?” “Reverend, there are these four floods. The floods of sensuality, desire to be reborn, views, and ignorance. These are the four floods.” “But, reverend, is there a path and a practice for completely understanding these floods?” “There is.” …
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What four floods does Sāriputta name?
Correct: A. A fourfold list, sharing two terms with SN 38.8's own narrower āsava list but adding views as a distinct category.