Similes

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which refers to specific suttas.

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What can be said about specific similes:

ie: Acrobats

• Illustration (url or filepath)
  • files/file.png
• Suttas the simile is used in:
  • Sedaka Sutta (sn47.19)
• Story:

  Once upon a time, monks, a bamboo acrobat, having erected a bamboo pole, addressed his assistant, Frying Pan: 'Come, my dear Frying Pan. Climb up the bamboo pole and stand on my shoulders.'

  'As you say, Master,' Frying Pan answered the bamboo acrobat and, climbing the bamboo pole, stood on his shoulders.

  So then the bamboo acrobat said to his assistant, 'Now you watch after me, my dear Frying Pan, and I'll watch after you. Thus, protecting one another, watching after one another, we'll show off our skill, receive our reward, and come down safely from the bamboo pole.

  When he had said this, Frying Pan said to him, 'But that won't do at all, Master. You watch after yourself, and I'll watch after myself, and thus with each of us protecting ourselves, watching after ourselves, we'll show off our skill, receive our reward, and come down safely from the bamboo pole.

• Points of Principle it refers to
  • Establishments of Mindfulness (by protecting oneself one protects others)

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Index of Similes, taken from "The Connected Discourses of the Buddha, A New TransIation of the Samyutta Nikaaya" by Bhikkhu Bodhi

similes for volume 1

simile	volume	page
Acrobats, pair of	1	1648
Adze handle	1	960-61
Ancient city	1	603
Archers, firm-bowed	1	708
Ascent and descent	1	185-87
Baited hook	1	682-83
Balls of clay	1	623,652
Beryl gem	1	160
Bonfire	1	589
Brand from a pyre	1	920
Bubble on water	1	951
Bull elephant	1	710
Burden and its bearer	1	871-72
Calf, young	1	918
Cat and mouse	1	711
Charcoal pit	1	598-99
Chariot	1	230
City of mustard seeds	1	654
Clay pot, hot	1	588
Cloth, laundering of	1	945
Cow, flayed	1	598
Crab, mutilated	1	216
Cream-of-ghee	1	10,341,041
Crow, hungry	1	216-17
Disciples who recollect aeons	1	655
Dog on a leash	1	957,958
Drops from the ocean	1	623-24
Drum pegs	1	708
Dung beetle	1	684
Elephant's footprint	1	179
Families with many women	1	707
Fingernail of soil	1	621,706,956
Fire-sticks, pair of	1	597
Flowers, best of fragrant	1	962
Gale winds	1	685
Goat, long-haired	1	683-84
Gold, disappearance of	1	681
Grains of gravel	1	624-25
Grass and sticks	1	651
Grass in Jeta's Grove	1	877
Grass torch	1	636-37
Hand in space	1	664
Heartwood, searching for	1	951-52;
Heartwoods, best of fragrant	1	962;
Hen nurturing eggs	1	959-60
Horsehair rope	1	690
Hundred spears	1	599,618;
Jackal	1	685,712
Licchavi warriors	1	709
Lion the king of beasts	1	913;
Lotus pond	1	182-83,233
Lotus unsullied by water	1	950
Lump of cowdung	1	954
Lump of foam	1	951
Magical illusion	1	952
Mangoes, bunch of	1	961
Mirage	1	951
Monkey in forest	1	595
Moon, radiance of	1	962;
Moon, waxing and waning	1	669
Morning star	1	160
Mountain made of stone	1	654
Mountain rain	1	556;
Mountains approaching from all sides	1	192
Oil lamp	1	590,942;
Ornament of gold	1	160
Painting on a wall	1	600,959
Path, man skilled in	1	930
Peaked house	1	706,961-62;
Lump of foam	1	951
Magical illusion	1	952
Mangoes, bunch of	1	961
Mirage	1	951
Monkey in forest	1	595
Moon, radiance of	1	962;
Moon, waxing and waning	1	669
Morning star	1	160
Mountain made of stone	1	654
Mountain rain	1	556;
Mountains approaching from all sides	1	192
Oil lamp	1	590,942;
Ornament of gold	1	160
Painting on a wall	1	600,959
Path, man skilled in	1	930
Peaked house	1	706,961-62;
Plantain tree	1	692,951-52;
Ploughman	1	267-68,961
Poisoned beverage	1	606,607
Pond full of water	1	621-22;
Pregnant mule	1	692
Rain cloud	1	191-92;
River with swift current	1	949
Roots, best of fragrant	1	962;
Rush-cutter	1	961
Sand castles	1	985
Sapling, tender	1	592
Scent of a lotus	1	944
Seed sown in field	1	229
Seedlings, young	1	918-19
Servant, treacherous	1	933-34
Sharp-pointed spear	1	707
Sheaves of reeds	1	608
Similar things unite	1	640
Son's flesh	1	597-98
Stick thrown into air	1	656;
Sun in clear sky	1	160,962;
Sunbeam	1	601
Surge of the ocean	1	611-12
Tree, great	1	591-94
Turtle, heedless	1	683
Water at the confluence	1	622-23;
Well without a bucket	1	611
Wheel-turning monarch	1	962
Wild dog	1	693
Youth fond of ornaments	1	928
Youth in battle	1	190-91

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similes for vol 2

simile	volume	page
Animals, six	2	1255-57
Balls of clay	2	1876
Basket of leaves	2	1858-59
Body depends on food	2	1568
Boulder in a pool	2	1337
Bowl of oil	2	1649
Bowl of water	2	1611-15
Bull fond of barley	2	1253
Cart, old	2	1637
Charcoal pit	2	1248
Chariot	2	1239-40
Conch blower	2	1344
Conflagration	2	1867
Cook, king's	2	1634-35
Corruptions of gold	2	1590
Darkness between worlds	2	1870
Dart, man struck by	2	1264
Dawn as the forerunner	2	1543-44,1579,1580,1596,1861
Divine vehicle	2	1525-26
Drops from the ocean	2	1876-77
Elephant's footprint	2	1551,1697-98
Empty village	2	1237-38
Fields, good and bad	2	1338-39,1815
Fingernail of soil	2	187,418,781,879
Fire, tending a	2	1605-7
Fire-sticks, pair of	2	12,701,683
Fisherman	2	1228
Flame flung by wind	2	1393
Flowers, best of fragrant	2	1552
Frontier city	2	1252-53
Ganges, reversing the	2	125,015,581,756
Ganges slants eastwards	2	1548,1622,1665,1704,1709,1713,1746,1762-63
Ganges slants towards ocean	2	1549
Gatekeeper	2	1641-42
Grains of gravel	2	1872-73,1877-78
Grass and sticks	2	1860-61
Grass in Jeta's Grove	2	11,821,210
Guest house	2	12,731,557
Hands and feet	2	1236
Hawk and quail	2	1632
Heartwood, searching for	2	1189
Heartwoods, best of fragrant	2	15,521,698
Hundred spears	2	1860
Indra's pillar	2	1863
Iron ball	2	1741
Iron plate, hot	2	1250
Kasian cloth	2	1552
Kimsrlka tree	2	1251-52
Lion the king of beasts	2	1695
Living beings based on earth	2	1579
Log carried by Ganges	2	1241-44
Lute, sound of a	2	1254
Manifestation of great light	2	1861-62
Milk-sap tree	2	1229
Monkey trap	2	1633
Moon, radiance of	2	1552
Mound of soil	2	1777
Mountain rain	2	1825
Murderous enemies	2	1237-38
Nagas achieve greatness	2	15,541,567
Ocean and its current	2	1226-27
Oil lamp	2	12,681,773
Oxen, pair of	2	123,012,321,315
Pain like a split head	2	1165
Peaked house	2	1247,1551,1577,1695-96,1868-69
Lute, sound of a	2	1254
Manifestation of great light	2	1861-62
Milk-sap tree	2	1229
Monkey trap	2	1633
Moon, radiance of	2	1552
Mound of soil	2	1777
Mountain rain	2	1825
Murderous enemies	2	1237-38
Nagas achieve greatness	2	15,541,567
Ocean and its current	2	1226-27
Oil lamp	2	12,681,773
Oxen, pair of	2	123,012,321,315
Pain like a split head	2	1165
Peaked house	2	1247,1551,1577,169596,1868-69
Plantain tree	2	1233
Pond full of water	2	1874-75
Pot of ghee	2	1337-38,1809
Pot overturned	2	1555
Pot without a stand	2	1537
Precipice	2	1865-66
Raft	2	1238
Rain cloud	2	15,561,774
Rivers slant eastwards	2	1549
Rivers slant towards the ocean	2	1549
Roots, best of fragrant	2	1552
Seed and plant life	2	1553
Sheaf of barley	2	1257
Shed made of reeds	2	1246
Ship on dry land, 1961	2	1557
Shooting arrows through a split hair	2	1869-70
Simsapa grove	2	1857
Spike of rice	2	15,301,555
Stick thrown into air	2	1859
Stone column	2	1863
Strenuous deeds	2	1553
Sun in clear sky	2	1552
Sunbeam	2	1688
Tathagata the best of beings	2	1550
Thorny forest	2	1249
Tortoise and jackal	2	1240-41
Tree slanting eastwards	2	1554
Tree with broken branches	2	1643-44,1645
Trees, parasitic	2	1593
Trees, the chief of	2	1703-4
Tuft of cotton wool	2	1862
Turtle, blind, and yoke	2	1871-72
Vepacitti, bondage of	2	1258
Vipers, deadly	2	1237-38
Wardrobe full of clothes	2	1574
Water at the confluence	2	18,291,875
Water in the ocean	2	13,811,828
Waterpots, good and bad	2	133940
Winds in the sky	2	12,721,555