Reading guide
One file, two discourses, confirmed by the Pāli's own numerals
The Pāli root closes the Craving section with “Dasamaṁ” (“the tenth”) and the Thirst section with “Ekādasamaṁ” (“the eleventh”) — confirming, along with the closing uddāna's own explicit “dve taṇhā tasināya cāti” (“the two, craving and thirst”), that this single bilara-data file bundles what tradition counts as two separate discourses, making this an eleven-discourse vagga across ten pages.
The fourfold formula, written out in full one final time
Where every discourse since SN 45.162 has compressed the formula into a single base-formula line, the Thirst section reprises SN 45.161's own fuller presentation, writing out all four closing formulas (base; removal of greed, hate, delusion; freedom from death; self-referential extinguishment) explicitly — confirming, at this vagga's own close, that the wider matrix implied throughout remains fully intact.
A colophon and uddāna, describing an ambiguous internal count
“Esanāvaggo sattamo” (“the Searches chapter, the seventh”) is an internal numbering note whose exact scope this project does not confidently interpret, as with similar notes closing earlier vaggas in Book V. The closing uddāna itself is a plain list of this vagga's own eleven discourse-topics (Searches, Discriminations, Defilements, States of Existence, Forms of Suffering, Barrenness, Stains, Troubles, Feelings, Craving, and Thirst), described here rather than rendered as invented verse.
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Craving — the tenth discourse, the base formula in full“Mendicants, there are these three cravings. What three? Craving for sensual pleasures, craving for existence, and craving for nonexistence. These are the three cravings. The noble eightfold path should be developed for the direct knowledge, complete understanding, finishing, and giving up of these three cravings. What is the noble eightfold path? It’s when a mendicant develops right view, right purpose, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right immersion, which rely on seclusion, fading away, and cessation, and ripen as letting go. This is the noble eightfold path that should be developed for the direct knowledge, complete understanding, finishing, and giving up of these three cravings.”
Thirst — the eleventh discourse, opening“Mendicants, there are these three thirsts. What three? Thirst for sensual pleasures, thirst to continue existence, and thirst to end existence.
Thirst — all four closing formulas, in turnFor the direct knowledge, complete understanding, finishing, and giving up of these three thirsts … … which culminates in the removal of greed, hate, and delusion. … whose objective, destination, and culmination is freedom from death. … which slants, slopes, and inclines to extinguishment. The noble eightfold path should be developed for the direct knowledge, complete understanding, finishing, and giving up of these three thirsts.”
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