Not given — continuing directly from SN 56.83's own setting
Speaker
The Buddha, addressing the mendicants directly
Form
A single elided line, the fingernail demonstration assumed
Length
<1 minute to read
Northern parallel
No individual parallel confirmed by this project's own check
Significance
★★★★★ — the fourth of ten discourses, at last resolving this project's own naming puzzle first flagged at SN 56.61 and partially traced at SN 56.78
Why this discourse
Confirmed by direct reading, this discourse compares sentient beings who refrain from receiving raw grain to the rare pinch of dirt, and those who don't refrain to the vast earth — and its own title, “Āmakadhaññasutta,” is the literal source of the name shared by all four vaggas in this block (7 through 10, each named “first/second/third/fourth āmakadhaññapeyyālavagga”), confirming this project's own hypothesis first raised at SN 56.61 and partially supported at SN 56.78: the block is named for this discourse specifically, its own most distinctive or memorable member, even though the name does not describe every discourse within it.
Reading guide
A naming puzzle, resolved
This project's own full accounting, closing a thread traced across three vaggas: SN 56.61 first flagged that no discourse in Vagga 7 mentioned raw grain despite the vagga's own name; SN 56.78 offered a partial explanation via the shared “bīja” (“seed”) root; this discourse now confirms directly that “raw grain” names an actual discourse, positioned as the fourth of ten in this third vagga of the block — the whole four-vagga stretch (SN 56.61-100, by this project's own reading ahead) evidently takes its own collective name from this single, memorable discourse rather than from any content shared by all forty of its own members.
Key terms
appakā te sattā ye āmakadhaññapaṭiggahaṇā paṭiviratā — “the sentient beings who refrain from receiving raw grain are few” — the rare category, matching the tiny pinch of dirt
āmakadhañña — “raw, uncooked grain” — the term giving this discourse its own title, and by extension the name of this entire four-vagga block
paṭiggahaṇā — “receiving, accepting” — the same verb governing every item since SN 56.83
appaṭiviratā — “those who don't refrain” — the vast majority category, matching the whole earth
… — the elision marking, standing in for the fingernail demonstration already given in full at SN 56.61-62
The text
Every genuinely translated fragment given in the consulted English source, which itself preserves the elision back to SN 56.61's own full statement. Translation: Bhikkhu Sujato (CC0, SuttaCentral).
§1“… the sentient beings who refrain from receiving raw grain are few, while those who don’t refrain are many. …”
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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 title finally confirm, per this project's own reading?
Correct: A. Confirmed by direct reading — the puzzle's own resolution, traced across three vaggas of this project's own work.
Question 2 of 3
What does this project's own conclusion suggest about how the four-vagga block came to share its own name?
Correct: A. This project's own final reading of the naming convention, now confirmed directly.
Question 3 of 3
What claim does this discourse itself make about refraining from receiving raw grain?
Correct: A. Confirmed by direct reading — the discourse's own specific claim, matching this vagga's own recurring formula.
