Reading guide
Word for word, confirmed by direct comparison
Every line of this discourse's own dialogue — the chain from going forth through finding satisfaction, practicing in line with the teaching, and finally arahantship “not long” away — matches SN 38.16's own wording exactly, confirmed by reading both bilara-data files directly rather than assumed from either saṃyutta's own reputation.
A summary borrowed, not repeated
Where SN 38.16 spelled out its own full uddāna (left untranslated but genuinely present in the Pali root), this discourse's own closing note instead says “Purimakasadisaṁ uddānaṁ” — “the uddāna is the same as the previous one's” — deferring even its own summary verse to SN 38's, a second-order compression this saṃyutta's own opening page did not need.
A different name, closing the same chain
“The Linked Discourses with Sāmaṇḍaka are complete” replaces SN 38.16's own “The Linked Discourses with Jambukhādaka are complete” — the one line in either discourse's own closing material that could not simply be cross-referenced, since each saṃyutta must name itself.
Key terms
The text
§1“Reverend Sāriputta, in this teaching and training, what is hard to do?” “Going forth, reverend, is hard to do in this teaching and training.” “But what’s hard to do for someone who has gone forth?” “When you’ve gone forth it’s hard to be satisfied.” “But what’s hard to do for someone who is satisfied?” “When you’re satisfied, it’s hard to practice in line with the teaching.” “But if a mendicant practices in line with the teaching, will it take them long to become a perfected one?” “Not long, reverend.”
§2The Linked Discourses with Sāmaṇḍaka are complete.
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