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Saṁyutta Nikāya 1.44 Linked Discourses 1.44
5. Ādittavagga 5. On Fire
Ekamūlasutta One Root A devatā:“One Root
“Ekamūlaṁ dvirāvaṭṭaṁ, “One the root, two the loops, The exact meaning of these items is open to interpretation. See Bodhi’s note for two readings; I offer a third. | Āvaṭṭa here might be read as “whirlpool”, “loop”, or “twist”.With its one root, two whirlpools,
timalaṁ pañcapattharaṁ; three the stains, five the spreads, Patthara is probably a “spread” of grass, such as was laid down in rituals.Three stains, five extensions,
Samuddaṁ dvādasāvaṭṭaṁ, and the ocean, the twelfth whirlpool: If the ocean is counted as the last item, the total is twelve. Dvādasa can be an ordinal number. | I take the riddle as corresponding with the twelvefold “round” (vaṭṭa) of dependent origination. The “one root” is ignorance; the “two loops” are name-and-form with consciousness (DN 15:22.6); the “three stains” are ignorance, craving, and grasping; the “five spreads” are perhaps the five consequents starting with consciousness; and the “ocean” is transmigration itself.An ocean with twelve eddies.
pātālaṁ atarī isī”ti. such is the abyss crossed by the seer.” The seer has crossed over the abyss.”