Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c14.82

v1.c14.82

Gaṅgāpeyyāla.—In the fifth book of the Saṃyutta Nikāya a repetition under the name of Gaṅgāpeyyāla occurs several times. “ Just as the Gaṅgā flows to the east, slides to the east, and tends to the east, even so, a monk who cultivates the bojjhaṅgas (S. v. 135, 137), the satipaṭṭhānas (196), the indriyas (239, 241), the padhānas (244), the balas 249, 251), the *iddhipādas* (290), and the *jhānas* (307), slides and tends towards *nibbāna*.”