Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c7.893

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**Āsīvisa Vagga.**—The nineteenth chapter of the *Saḷāyatana Saṃyutta* of the *Saṃyutta Nikāya*.¹ 1. Āsivisa Sutta.—Preached at Sāvatthi. Man has to tend four snakes of fierce heat and fearful venom—the four *mahābhūtas*; he is constantly followed by five murderous foes—the five *upādānakkhandhā*; he is pursued by a murderous housebreaker with uplifted sword—passionate desire (*nandirāga*); while trying to escape them, he wanders into an empty village, where everything is empty—the sixfold personal sense sphere (*ajjhattikāyatana*), and into it come village-plunderers—the sixfold external sense-spheres (*bāhirāyatana*.) Fleeing from there he comes to a broad sheet of water beset with danger on the hither side; the further side is secure from fear, but there is no boat and no bridge—the fivefold flood (*ogha*), the hither shore being *sakkāya* and the further shore *nibbāna*.¹