Not given — a bare cross-reference instruction, carrying no worked example of its own
Speakers
The Buddha (implied)
Form
A single cross-reference instruction, plus a closing uddāna; no worked example of its own
Length
<1 minute to read, per the source's own actual content
Northern parallel
No individual parallel confirmed by this project's own check
Significance
★★★☆☆ — the fourth time this project has met this exact ten-simile vagga, now without SN 48's own later variant qualifier
Why this discourse
This is the fourth time this project has met the identical ten-simile Appamādavagga structure — after SN 45.139-148 (eightfold path), SN 46.89-98 (awakening factors), and SN 48.83-92 (five faculties) — now applied to the four right efforts. Confirmed by direct reading: unlike SN 48's own later instances, which specified “removal of greed version,” this cross-reference carries no variant qualifier at all.
Reading guide
A fourth meeting with a familiar formula
Confirmed by direct reading, this file carries no worked example — only the instruction “tell in full as in SN 45.139–148” and the closing uddāna, matching the compression already confirmed at SN 48.83-92, and now reused for a fourth quality set across this book's own repeated peyyāla formulas.
No variant specified, unlike SN 48's own later instances
This project's own explicit observation: SN 48.137-146 and SN 48.147-158 both specified “removal of greed version” for this identical cross-reference, but this file's own English source gives no such qualifier — a genuine difference reported honestly, not assumed to default to either variant without direct confirmation.
Ten similes, confirmed by this file's own uddāna alone
As general canonical background, already confirmed at this project's own earlier treatment of SN 45.139-148: the ten similes are the Realized One, a footprint, a roof's peak, roots, heartwood, jasmine, a monarch, the sun and moon, and cloth, here applied to the developed four right efforts rather than the eightfold path, awakening factors, or five faculties.
Key terms
Appamādavaggo sammappadhānavasena vitthāretabbo — “the Diligence chapter is to be elaborated by way of the right efforts” — this file's own sole substantive instruction
appamāda — “diligence, heedfulness” — this vagga's own governing quality, already met three times before in this project's own work
tathāgataṁ padaṁ kūṭaṁ — “the Realized One, footprint, roof peak” — the closing uddāna's own opening line, naming the first three of this vagga's own ten similes
mūlaṁ sārena vassikaṁ; rājā candimasūriyā, vatthena dasamaṁ padaṁ — “roots, heartwood, jasmine, monarch, sun and moon, and cloth is the tenth” — the uddāna's remaining seven similes
Appamādavaggo dutiyo — “the Diligence chapter, the second” — confirming this vagga's own position as the second in this saṃyutta
The text
Every genuinely translated fragment given in the consulted English source: the bare cross-reference instruction, and the closing uddāna. Translation: Bhikkhu Sujato (CC0, SuttaCentral).
§1(Tell in full as in SN 45.139–148.)
UddānaThe Realized One, footprint, roof peak, roots, heartwood, jasmine, monarch, sun and moon, and cloth is the tenth.
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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 times has this project now met this identical ten-simile Appamādavagga structure?
Correct: A. A recurring closing formula this project has now confirmed across four separate saṃyuttas.
Question 2 of 3
What genuine difference does this project note compared to SN 48's own later instances of this cross-reference?
Correct: A. Reported honestly rather than assumed to default to either known variant.
Question 3 of 3
What does the closing uddāna confirm about this vagga's own similes?
Correct: A. Already confirmed at this project's own earlier work on SN 45.139-148.
