Saṃyutta Nikāya
II. Nidāna Vagga
14. Dhātu-Saṃyuttaṃ
IV. Catuttha Vagga
The Book of the Kindred Sayings
II. The Book Called the Nidāna-Vagga
Containing Kindred sayings on Cause
and Other Subjects
14. The Kindred Sayings on Element
4. [Untitled]
Sutta 36
Uppāda Suttaṃ
Uprising
Translated by Mrs. Rhys Davids
Assisted by F. L. Woodward
Originally Published by
The Pali Text Society
Public Domain
[1] THUS have I heard.
On a certain occasion the Exalted One was staying near Sāvatthī in Jeta Grove, the Anāthapiṇḍika Park.
Then the Exalted One addressed the brethren, saying:
"Brethren."
"Yes, lord," replied those brethren to the Exalted One.
The Exalted One said:
Mrs. Rhys Davids' translation here has gone off the rails. Bhk. Bodhi's is better:
"the arising, continuation, production, and manifestation of the earth element is the arising of suffering, the continuation of disese, the manifestation of aging-and-death.
— p.p.
"That, brethren, which is the uprising,
the persisting,
the rebirth,
the manifestation of the earth-element,
that is the uprising,
the persisting,
the rebirth,
the manifestation of pain.
That, brethren, which is the uprising,
the persisting,
the rebirth,
the manifestation of the water-element,
that is the uprising,
the persisting,
the rebirth,
the manifestation of pain.
That, brethren, which is the uprising,
the persisting,
the rebirth,
the manifestation of the fire-element,
that is the uprising,
the persisting,
the rebirth,
the manifestation of pain.
That, brethren, which is the uprising,
the persisting,
the rebirth,
the manifestation of the air-element,
that is the uprising,
the persisting,
the rebirth,
the manifestation of pain.
§
That which is the ceasing,
the quelling,
the going out of the earth-element,
that is the ceasing,
the quelling,
the going out of pain.
That which is the ceasing,
the quelling,
the going out of the water-element,
that is the ceasing,
the quelling,
the going out of pain.
That which is the ceasing,
the quelling,
the going out of the fire-element,
that is the ceasing,
the quelling,
the going out of pain.
That which is the ceasing,
the quelling,
the going out of the air-element,
that is the ceasing,
the quelling,
the going out of pain."
