Reading guide
SN 50's own tenfold structure, now confirmed
Confirmed by direct reading of this file's own closing colophon (“Gaṅgāpeyyālavaggo chaṭṭho,” “the Ganges Abbreviated-Texts chapter, the sixth”), SN 50's own ten merged bilara-data files correspond exactly to ten vaggas: Gaṅgā, Appamāda, Balakaraṇīya, Esanā, and Ogha, each repeated once more with a “Puna-” prefix — matching SN 48's own Vaggas 8-15 structure precisely.
The removal-of-greed formula, matching SN 48.125-136
Confirmed by direct reading, this vagga's own closing formula is “rāgavinayapariyosānaṁ dosavinayapariyosānaṁ mohavinayapariyosānaṁ” (“culminating in the removal of greed, hate, and delusion”), and its own cross-reference explicitly confirms this: “tell in full for each of the different rivers as in SN 45.91–102, removal of greed version” — matching this project's own already-completed SN 48.125-136 rather than the original “seclusion” formula from SN 50.1-12.
Twelve discourses, confirmed by the identical uddāna
This vagga's own closing uddāna is character-for-character identical to SN 50.1-12's own and to every other instance of this formula this project has met — six on slanting east, six on slanting to the ocean, twelve total.
Key terms
The text
§1“Mendicants, the Ganges river slants, slopes, and inclines to the east. In the same way, a mendicant who develops and cultivates the five powers slants, slopes, and inclines to extinguishment. And how does a mendicant who develops the five powers slant, slope, and incline to extinguishment? It’s when a mendicant develops the powers of faith, energy, mindfulness, immersion, and wisdom, which culminate in the removal of greed, hate, and delusion. That’s how a mendicant who develops and cultivates the five powers slants, slopes, and inclines to extinguishment.”
Cross-reference(Tell in full for each of the different rivers as in SN 45.91–102, removal of greed version.)
UddānaSix on slanting to the east, and six on slanting to the ocean; these two sixes make twelve, and that’s how this chapter is recited.
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