Reading guide
Six items, one compound clause
Confirmed by direct reading, this merged file does not give each of its own six discourse-numbers its own separate elaboration the way SN 45.42-47's own earlier merged page did (each keeping its own distinct clause); instead, all six items — mutilation, murder, abduction, banditry, plunder, and violence — are named together in a single compound word, treated as one unified statement rather than six discrete claims.
The four-vagga block, complete
This project's own final accounting: SN 56.61-101 spans 41 discourses across four vaggas (7 through 10), all sharing the collective name “āmakadhaññapeyyāla” (“raw grain, elided”) traced to its own actual source at SN 56.84 — a naming puzzle first noticed at SN 56.61, partially addressed at SN 56.78, and fully resolved when this project reached the discourse the whole block is named for.
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The text
§1“… the sentient beings who refrain from mutilation, murder, abduction, banditry, plunder, and violence are few, while those who don’t refrain are many. Why is that? It’s because they haven’t seen the four noble truths. What four? The noble truths of suffering, its origin, its cessation, and the path.
§2That’s why you should practice meditation …”
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