Not given — continuing directly from SN 55.60's own setting
Speaker
The Buddha, addressing the mendicants directly
Form
A single compressed sentence, closing both the wisdom sub-sequence and Vagga 6 itself
Length
<1 minute to read
Northern parallel
No individual parallel confirmed by this project's own check
Significance
★★★★★ — closes Vagga 6 (11 discourses, confirmed directly rather than assumed), completing the three-stage wisdom sub-sequence's own final term
Why this discourse
Confirmed by direct reading of its own root colophon (“Sappaññavaggo chaṭṭho”) and uddāna, this discourse closes Vagga 6 at eleven discourses — not ten, confirmed directly rather than assumed from the pattern of every prior vagga in this saṃyutta — matching this project's own SN 55.51-61 exactly. It completes the wisdom sub-sequence's own final stage: “increase” (vepulla), beyond SN 55.59's own “getting” and SN 55.60's own “growth.”
Reading guide
A vagga confirmed at eleven, not ten
This project's own explicit confirmation: unlike every prior vagga in this saṃyutta, which held exactly ten discourses, this vagga's own colophon and uddāna confirm eleven — a genuine structural variation this project verified directly by reading the source rather than assuming the established pattern would hold automatically.
Three terms for wisdom's own arc, now complete
Confirmed by direct reading, “vepulla” (“increase, fullness, abundance”) names a further stage beyond SN 55.60's own “growth” — completing a genuine three-part progression: wisdom first obtained, then developed, then brought to its own full measure.
An untranslated closing, once more
This project's own direct comparison: matching the pattern already confirmed at SN 54.10, SN 55.10, and SN 55.20, this discourse's own closing colophon and uddāna are both left as empty strings in the consulted English source, genuinely untranslated rather than filled in by this project.
Key terms
paññāvepullāya saṁvattanti — “lead to the increase of wisdom” — this discourse's own specific result, closing the three-part wisdom sub-sequence
vepulla — “increase, fullness, abundance” — the final term in wisdom's own three-stage progression, beyond mere growth
sappaññavaggo chaṭṭho — “the Wise-Person chapter, the sixth [ends]” — the root colophon's own vagga-closing marker
ekādasamaṁ — “eleventh” — this discourse's own closing ordinal, confirming this vagga's own genuinely eleven-discourse length
sagāthakaṁ vassaṁvutthaṁ, dhammadinnañca gilānaṁ; caturo phalā paṭilābho, vuddhi vepullatāya cāti — the closing uddāna's own eleven titles, confirmed by direct reading to match SN 55.51 through SN 55.61 exactly
The text
Every genuinely translated fragment given in the consulted English source; the closing colophon and uddāna themselves are left untranslated in the source, matching the pattern already confirmed at SN 54.10, SN 55.10, and SN 55.20. Translation: Bhikkhu Sujato (CC0, SuttaCentral).
§1“Mendicants, when four things are developed and cultivated they lead to the increase of wisdom. …”
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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 this discourse's own root colophon confirm about Vagga 6, which this project verified directly rather than assumed?
Correct: A. Confirmed by direct reading of the root Pali colophon — a genuine structural variation, not assumed from habit.
Question 2 of 3
What does "vepulla" ("increase") complete, together with SN 55.59's own "getting" and SN 55.60's own "growth"?
Correct: A. Confirmed by direct reading — a coherent three-stage arc for wisdom's own development.
Question 3 of 3
What does this project's own direct comparison confirm about this discourse's own closing colophon and uddāna?
Correct: A. Confirmed by direct comparison, reported honestly rather than filled in.
