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Saṁyutta Nikāya — The Connected Discourses

SN47: Connected Discourses on the Establishments of Mindfulness

SN47:63–72 The Tathagata, Etc.

(To be elaborated by way of the establishments of mindfulness parallel to SN45.139–48.)

1"Yāvatā, bhikkhave, sattā apadā vā dvipadā vā catuppadā vā bahuppadā vā"ti vitthāretabbaṁ.

Appamādavaggo sattamo.



2Tathagata, footprint, roof peak,
Roots, heartwood, jasmine,
Monarch, the moon and sun,
Together with the cloth as tenth.

2Tathāgataṁ padaṁ kūṭaṁ,
mūlaṁ sāro ca vassikaṁ;
Rājā candimasūriyā,
vatthena dasamaṁ padanti.