Saṁyutta Nikāya
2. Nidāna Vagga

Part II.
The Book Called the Nidāna-Vagga
Containing Kindred sayings on Cause
and Other Subjects

20. Opamma-Samyuttam

Chapter XX.
The Kindred Sayings on Parables

Sutta 1

Kūṭam Suttaṁ

The Roof-Peak

 

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Thus have I heard:

The Exalted One was once staying near Sāvatthi at the Jeta Grove in Anāthapiṇḍika's Park.

There the venerable Mahā-Moggallāna addressed the brethren: —

'Friends, brethren!'

'Yes, friend,' responded the brethren.

Just as in a peaked house,even so, whatever wrong states there are
all have their root in ignorance,
all may be referred to ignorance,
all are fixed together in ignorance,
all go to junction there.

Wherefore, brethren, ye must thus train yourselves: —

'We will live earnestly'²

— even thus.

 

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¹ Kūṭāgāra, a hut or building with a peaked-roof or pinnacles, possibly gabled or with an upper storey. Cf. above, p. 71, PTS. Dictionary. For other parables on it see my Index to Similes in the Nikāyas, JPTS, 1906-7, pp. 58f., where this parable has been inadvertently omitted.

² All of the Suttas in this chapter except §8 are referred to Sāvatthī.