First,

Thanks for the great work on DPR! It's really an awesome tool that makes
things much easier than lugging around and flipping through lots of physical
books. I'm hoping someone can explain how the different numbering systems
work on the samyutta basket. I see DPR has 5 "books", each book as severl
subdivisinos. What I'm trying to figure out is how to map the numbering
scheme on Thanissaro's access to insight samyutta English translations to do
a side by side comparison with DPR. The current example of what I'm trying
to research:



http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn36/sn36.011.than.html

which has this sutta heading:

SN 36.11

PTS: S iv 216

CDB ii 1270

Rahogata Sutta: Alone





In DPR, there I just looked through books 1 through 5 until I finally found
rahogata sutta in book 4, under rahogata vaggo. Is that the correct sutta? I
haven't started doing a word by word scan through DPR, but just looking at
the rough word counts between the English sutta at ATI and the DPR version,
the DPR version looks a lot shorter.



In thanissaro's translation, paragraph 3:

"And I have also taught the step-by-step cessation of fabrications. When one
has attained the first jhana, speech has ceased. When one has attained the
second jhana, directed thought & evaluation have ceased. When one has
attained the third jhana, rapture has ceased. When one has attained the
fourth jhana, in-and-out breathing has ceased. When one has attained the
dimension of the infinitude of space, the perception of forms has ceased.



I wanted to look up the DPR pali so I can try to track down what pali
Thanissaro based his translation for "speech has ceased" in first jhana.

But in general I sure would like to make some sense out of how Samyuttas are
organized, and which mapping scheme corresponds with the one DPR is using.



Thanks in advance.



-Frank





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