Ten discourses compressed into a single bilara-data file, giving one explicit example before an explicit cross-reference instruction
Length
<1 minute to read, per the source's own actual content
Northern parallel
No individual parallel confirmed by this project's own check
Difficulty
★★☆☆☆ — brief in its own written form, but structurally confirmed to represent ten discourses
Why this discourse
The Realized One, said to be the best of all sentient beings, illustrates diligence as the quality in which every skillful teaching is rooted and meets — the identical simile already met at SN 45.139 in this book's own Maggasaṃyutta, here explicitly cross-referenced by the source itself rather than rewritten, confirmed by the closing uddāna to span ten similes across ten discourses.
Reading guide
A direct cross-reference, not independent content
Confirmed by direct reading, the source itself instructs readers to “tell in full as in SN 45.139–148” — this project's own already-completed Appamādapeyyālavagga from the Maggasaṃyutta — rather than rewriting the full simile-by-simile content again. The ten similes (the Realized One, a footprint, a roof's peak, a root, heartwood, the rainy season, a king, the moon, the sun, and cloth) are confirmed by the closing uddāna's own explicit list to structure this entire ten-discourse vagga identically to its own earlier counterpart.
A different name from its own SN 45 counterpart
Confirmed by direct reading, this vagga's own Pāli name is “Appamādavagga” (“the Diligence chapter”) — without the “peyyāla” (“abbreviated text”) element carried by SN 45's own “Appamādapeyyālavagga,” even though both vaggas are built from the identical ten-simile content and both are, in their own way, abbreviated.
A single file, unlike SN 45's own four-page treatment
SN 45's own version of this vagga is split by the source itself into four separate pages — the opening discourse written out in full, the second elided to its base formula alone, then two further merged files completing the remaining eight — but SN 46's own version compresses the entire ten-discourse vagga into this single explicit cross-reference, confirmed to carry no independent content of its own beyond the one worked example.
Key terms
tathāgato araham sammāsambuddho... aggamakkhāyati — “the Realized One, the perfected one, the fully awakened Buddha, is said to be the best” — the identical opening image already met at SN 45.139, this book's own recurring diligence simile
appamādamūlakā appamādasamosaraṇā — “rooted in diligence and meeting at diligence” — the shared description this project's own SN 45.139 confirmed applies to all skillful qualities
vitthāretabbaṁ — “to be elaborated in full” — the source's own explicit cross-reference instruction, pointing to SN 45.139-148 rather than repeating that content
appamādavaggo dasamo — “the Diligence chapter, the tenth” — unambiguous confirmation of this vagga's own position, matching this project's own count without discrepancy
tathāgataṁ padaṁ kūṭaṁ, mūlaṁ sārena vassikaṁ — “the Realized One, footprint, roof-peak, root, with heartwood, rainy season” — the closing uddāna's own opening line, listing the first six of this vagga's own ten similes
The text
Every genuinely translated fragment given in the consulted English source. Translation: Bhikkhu Sujato (CC0, SuttaCentral).
§1“Mendicants, the Realized One, the perfected one, the fully awakened Buddha, is said to be the best of all sentient beings—be they footless, with two feet, four feet, or many feet …”
§2(Tell in full as in SN 45.139–148.)
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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
What does the source itself instruct, rather than rewriting the full simile-by-simile content?
Correct: A. A direct cross-reference to this project's own already-completed Appamādapeyyālavagga from the Maggasaṃyutta.
Question 2 of 3
How does this vagga's own Pāli name differ from SN 45's own version of the same vagga?
Correct: A. Confirmed by direct reading of this vagga's own colophon.
Question 3 of 3
How does this vagga's own single-file structure differ from SN 45's own four-page treatment of the identical ten similes?
Correct: A. Confirmed by direct comparison of both vaggas' own bilara-data structure.
