Reading guide
A birth-based term, reappropriated as practice
Brahmañña ordinarily concerns a brahmin's own inherited status and ritual role; here it is defined purely as the eightfold path, exactly paralleling how SN 45.35 redefined sāmañña away from any external ascetic marker — confirmed by direct comparison, this project's own second instance of the identical rhetorical move within this vagga alone.
Identical structure to SN 45.35, only the name changed
Every element of this discourse — the teach-you announcement, the eightfold-path definition, the four named fruits — matches SN 45.35's own wording exactly except for the substituted term, confirmed by direct comparison of both discourses' own text.
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The text
§1At Sāvatthī. “Mendicants, I will teach you life as a brahmin and the fruits of life as a brahmin. Listen … And what is life as a brahmin? It is simply this noble eightfold path, that is: right view, right purpose, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right immersion. This is called life as a brahmin. And what are the fruits of life as a brahmin? The fruits of stream-entry, once-return, non-return, and perfection. These are called the fruits of life as a brahmin.”
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