Dighanikaya 1.1_7

1.1_7

Sutanti ayaṃ suta-saddo saupasaggo ca anupasaggo ca – gamanavissutakilinna-upacitānuyoga-sotaviññeyya-sotadvārānusāra-viññātādianekatthappabhedo, tathā hissa ‘‘senāya pasuto’’tiādīsu gacchantoti attho. ‘‘Sutadhammassa passato’’tiādīsu (udā. 11) vissutadhammassāti attho. ‘‘Avassutā avassutassā’’tiādīsu (pāci. 657) kilinnākilinnassāti attho. ‘‘Tumhehi puññaṃ pasutaṃ anappaka’’ntiādīsu (khu. pā. 7.12) upacitanti attho. ‘‘Ye jhānapasutā dhīrā’’tiādīsu (dha. pa. 181) jhānānuyuttāti attho. ‘Diṭṭhaṃ sutaṃ muta’ntiādīsu (ma. ni. 1.241) sotaviññeyyanti attho. ‘‘Sutadharo sutasannicayo’’tiādīsu (ma. ni. 1.339) sotadvārānusāraviññātadharoti attho. Idha panassa sotadvārānusārena upadhāritanti vā upadhāraṇanti vāti attho. ‘Me’ saddassa hi ‘mayā’ti atthe sati ‘evaṃ mayā sutaṃ’ sotadvārānusārena upadhāritanti yujjati. ‘Mamā’ti atthe sati evaṃ mama sutaṃ sotadvārānusārena upadhāraṇanti yujjati.

Regarding sutaṃ: this word suta, with or without a prefix, has a distinction of diverse meanings such as going, renowned, wet, accumulated, devotion, to be cognized by the ear, known following the ear-door, and so forth. For in such passages as "senāya pasuto" ("marching with an army"), its meaning is going. In such passages as "sutadhammassa passato" ("for one who sees the renowned Dhamma"), its meaning is renowned. In such passages as "avassutā avassutassa" ("she who is wet with lust to him who is wet with lust"), its meaning is wet. In such passages as "tumhehi puññaṃ pasutaṃ anappakaṃ" ("much merit has been accumulated by you"), its meaning is accumulated. In such passages as "ye jhānapasutā dhīrā" ("the wise who are devoted to absorption"), its meaning is devoted to absorption. In such passages as "diṭṭhaṃ sutaṃ mutaṃ" ("seen, heard, sensed"), its meaning is to be cognized by the ear. In such passages as "sutadharo sutasannicayo" ("bearer of what was heard, accumulator of what was heard"), its meaning is bearer of what was known following the ear-door. Here, however, its meaning is either "it was retained following the ear-door" or "the retention following the ear-door." For when the word me has the meaning of "by me," then "evaṃ mayā sutaṃ" applies as "retained by me following the ear-door." When it has the meaning of "mine," then "evaṃ mama sutaṃ" applies as "this is my retention following the ear-door."