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 fifth time this project has met this exact ten-simile vagga
Why this discourse
This is the fifth time this project has met the identical ten-simile Appamādavagga structure — after SN 45.139-148 (eightfold path), SN 46.89-98 (awakening factors), SN 48.83-92 (five faculties), and SN 49.13-22 (four right efforts) — now applied to the five powers, confirmed by direct reading to carry no worked example of its own, matching SN 48.83-92's own exact wording.
Reading guide
A fifth meeting with a familiar formula
Confirmed by direct reading, this file carries no worked example — only the instruction “tell in full as in the chapter on diligence at SN 45.139–148” and the closing uddāna, identical in wording to SN 48.83-92's own cross-reference, now reused for a fifth quality set across this book's own repeated peyyāla formulas.
No variant specified, matching SN 48.83-92's own wording
This project's own observation: like SN 48.83-92, and unlike SN 48's own later “removal of greed version” instances, this cross-reference specifies no variant, confirmed by direct comparison rather than assumed uniform with either pattern.
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 five powers rather than the eightfold path, awakening factors, five faculties, or four right efforts.
Key terms
Appamādavaggo vitthāretabbo — “the Diligence chapter is to be elaborated in full” — this file's own sole substantive instruction, identical in wording to SN 48.83-92's own
appamāda — “diligence, heedfulness” — this vagga's own governing quality, now met for the fifth time 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 the chapter on diligence at 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 five separate saṃyuttas.
Question 2 of 3
How does this cross-reference compare to SN 48.83-92's own wording?
Correct: A. Confirmed by direct comparison, not assumed from the pattern alone.
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.
