1: Bodhivaggo The chapter titles in the Udāna are principally named after one (or, as here, more) of the main discourses that occur in the chapter; the only exception to this being the 7th chapter
Book, chapter, and discourse titles in Pāḷi are normally quoted in the nominative, which is the so-called label-use of the nominative; see Perniola, PG § 245d. But note that in the manuscript editions of the texts the end-title is the rule, quoting the title at the beginning of a text is a modern felicity.
The Chapter (including the Discourses) about the Awakening (Tree)
Namo tassa Bhagavato Arahato Sammāsambuddhassa
Reverence to him, the Fortunate One, the Worthy One, the Perfect Sambuddha
1-1: Paṭhamabodhisuttaṁ (1) Bodhi in the title here and in the next 2 discourses refers to the Tree of Awakening, not to the Awakening itself, as the events described herein took place some time after that momentous event. Compare 1.4
The First Discourse about the Awakening (Tree)
Evaṁ me sutaṁ:
Thus I heard:
ekaṁ samayaṁ Bhagavā Uruvelāyaṁ viharati, Most of the discourses open with the same formula:
The accusative
The Commentary notes that the ancients recognise all these as having locative sense:
The locative in the place name which precedes the verb in these formulas is proximate, and usually means
at one time the Fortunate One was dwelling near Uruvelā,
najjā Nerañjarāya tīre Bodhirukkhamūle paṭhamābhisambuddho.
on the bank of the river Nerañjarā, at the root of the Awakening tree, in the first (period) after attaining Awakening.
Tena kho pana samayena Bhagavā
Then at that time the Fortunate One
sattāhaṁ ekapallaṅkena nisinno hoti
was sitting in one cross-legged posture for seven days experiencing the happiness of freedom.
Atha kho Bhagavā tassa sattāhassa accayena,
Then with the passing of those seven days, the Fortunate One,
tamhā samādhimhā vuṭṭhahitvā, rattiyā paṭhamaṁ yāmaṁ, The Commentary explains
after arising from that concentration, for the first watch of the night,
paṭiccasamuppādaṁ anulomaṁ
applied his mind thoroughly to conditional origination in forward order:
“Iti imasmiṁ sati Locative absolute construction, giving conditional sense Syntax § 184b.i. idaṁ hoti; imassuppādā idaṁ uppajjati,
“This being so, that is; from the arising of this, that arises,
yadidaṁ: avijjāpaccayā
The Commentary takes
that is to say: with ignorance as condition there are (volitional) processes,
saṅkhārapaccayā viññāṇaṁ,
with (volitional) processes as condition: consciousness,
viññāṇapaccayā nāmarūpaṁ,
with consciousness as condition: mind and bodily form,
nāmarūpapaccayā saḷāyatanaṁ,
with mind and bodily form as condition: the six sense spheres,
saḷāyatanapaccayā phasso,
with the six sense spheres as condition: contact,
phassapaccayā vedanā,
with contact as condition: feeling,
vedanāpaccayā taṇhā,
with feeling as condition: craving,
taṇhāpaccayā upādānaṁ,
with craving as condition: attachment,
upādānapaccayā bhavo,
with attachment as condition: continuation,
bhavapaccayā jāti,
with continuation as condition: birth,
jātipaccayā jarāmaraṇaṁ,
with birth as condition: old age, death,
sokaparidevadukkhadomanassupāyāsā The elements in this compound are grouped and ordered according to the waxing syllable principle, so we have to understand
grief, lamentation, pain, sorrow, and despair (all) arise,
evam-etassa kevalassa dukkhakkhandhassa samudayo hotī” ti.
and so there is an origination of this whole mass of suffering.”
Atha kho Bhagavā, etam-atthaṁ viditvā,
Then the Fortunate One, having understood the significance of it,
tāyaṁ velāyaṁ Locative absolute, with temporal sense (Syntax, § 183), an idiom which can be matched in the translation. imaṁ udānaṁ udānesi:
on that occasion uttered this exalted utterance:
“Yadā have pātubhavanti dhammā
“When (the nature of) things becomes really manifest
Ātāpino jhāyato brāhmaṇassa,
To the ardent meditating brāhmaṇa,
Athassa kaṅkhā vapayanti sabbā,
Then all his doubts disappear,
Yato pajānāti sahetudhamman”-ti. We might have expected a plural form here in agreement with
Since he knows (the nature of a) thing and its cause.”