Reading guide
A pattern reused, not reinvented
This discourse's own explicit instruction, “tell in full as in the section on searches,” confirms that the compressed four-verb, base-formula presentation established across the Esanāvagga carries forward unchanged into this final vagga — no new structural device is introduced here.
The last vagga of this saṃyutta
Confirmed by direct reading of this vagga's own closing discourse (SN 45.180): the Oghavagga is the final vagga of the entire Maggasaṃyutta, closing not only this vagga's own ten discourses but Book V's own first full saṃyutta.
Key terms
The text
§1At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, there are these four floods. What four? The floods of sensuality, desire to be reborn, views, and ignorance. These are the four floods. The noble eightfold path should be developed for the direct knowledge, complete understanding, finishing, and giving up of these four floods.” (Tell in full as in the section on searches.)
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