Not restated; presumably continuing from this saṃyutta's own settings in Jeta's Grove and the heavenly realms visited at SN 40.10
Speakers
Five named godlings (devaputta) approaching Venerable Mahāmoggallāna in turn
Form
Five names listed, each followed by the source's own editorial ellipsis, closed by a single cross-reference to SN 40.10 and this saṃyutta's own colophon
Length
<1 minute to read for what this page actually quotes
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
★☆☆☆☆ — brief in its own wording, closing the saṃyutta on a compression rather than new content
Why this discourse
This discourse closes Moggallānasaṃyutta with a second kind of compression — not a cross-saṃyutta cross-reference like SN 39's own to SN 38, but a cross-reference within this very saṃyutta, back to the discourse immediately before it. Five named godlings — Candana, Suyāma, Santusita, Sunimmita, and Vasavatti — each approach Moggallāna in turn, and each time the source itself trails into an ellipsis rather than repeating SN 40.10's own elaborate four-teaching, five-assembly structure a fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth time. A single closing instruction covers all five: “Tell in full as in the Discourse With Sakka.” This reading guide does not invent five new sets of content the source itself never provides; SN 40.10's own reading guide already presents the substantive teaching this cross-reference implies. This discourse then closes the entire saṃyutta on its own genuinely translated colophon: “The Linked Discourses on Moggallāna are complete.”
Reading guide
Five godlings, one shared instruction
Candana, Suyāma, Santusita, Sunimmita, and Vasavatti each approach Moggallāna in turn; the source names each one and then trails into an ellipsis, rather than repeating SN 40.10's own content five more times over.
A cross-reference within the saṃyutta itself
“Tell in full as in the Discourse With Sakka” is Sujato's own genuine translation of the source's own editorial instruction — a compression internal to this saṃyutta, distinct from SN 39's own cross-saṃyutta reference back to SN 38.
The saṃyutta closes, genuinely translated
Following an untranslated ordinal (“eleventh”), an untranslated vagga-level ordinal (“Moggallānavaggo paṭhamo,” confirming this single vagga as this saṃyutta's own first and only one), and an untranslated uddāna listing all eleven discourses, this discourse closes on Sujato's own genuinely translated final line: “The Linked Discourses on Moggallāna are complete.”
Key terms
candano devaputto — “the godling Candana” — the first of five named godlings this discourse's own Pali title is drawn from
suyāmo... santusito... sunimmito... vasavattī — the remaining four godlings, each named individually before the source's own shared ellipsis
Yathā sakkasuttaṁ tathā ime pañca peyyālā vitthāretabbā — “as with the Sakka Sutta, so these five peyyāla passages should be expanded” — the source's own untranslated Pali editorial instruction, genuinely rendered by Sujato as “Tell in full as in the Discourse With Sakka”
Moggallānavaggo paṭhamo — “Moggallānavagga, the first” — confirming this vagga as this saṃyutta's own single, first vagga
Moggallānasaṁyuttaṁ samattaṁ — “The Linked Discourses on Moggallāna are complete” — this saṃyutta's own genuinely Sujato-translated closing line
The text
The complete discourse as the source itself renders it, together with this saṃyutta's own genuinely translated final line. The vagga-level ordinal and uddāna, left untranslated in the Pali root, are described rather than quoted above. Translation: Bhikkhu Sujato (CC0, SuttaCentral).
§1Then the godling Candana … the godling Suyāma … the godling Santusita … the godling Sunimmita … the godling Vasavatti …
§2(Tell in full as in the Discourse With Sakka.)
§3The Linked Discourses on Moggallāna are complete.
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Self-check quiz
3 questions. Click an answer to see immediate feedback. No score is recorded — this is for your own checking.
Question 1 of 3
How many godlings approach Moggallāna in this discourse, and how is each one's own visit rendered?
Correct: A. Named in turn, with no independent content spelled out for any of the five.
Question 2 of 3
What does the source's own closing instruction for these five visits say?
Correct: A. Distinct from SN 39's own cross-saṃyutta reference to SN 38 — this compression stays within Moggallānasaṃyutta itself.
Question 3 of 3
What does this discourse's own final line announce?
Correct: A. Following the untranslated vagga-level ordinal and uddāna this reading guide describes rather than quotes.
