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sn.47.63-72 Saṁyutta Nikāya (Linked Discourses)

The Tathagata, Etc.

(To be elaborated by way of the establishments of mindfulness parallel to .)

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

- Translator: Bhikkhu Bodhi

- Editor: Blake Walsh


The Realized One

“Mendicants, the Realized One, the perfected one, the fully awakened Buddha, is said to be the best of all sentient beings—be they footless, with two feet, four feet, or many feet …”
(To be expanded as in SN 45.139–148.)
The Realized One, footprint, roof peak,
roots, heartwood, jasmine,
monarch, sun and moon,
and cloth is the tenth.