Sassata

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Sassata

Pali	MO	Hare	Horner	Punnaji	Bodhi	Rhys Davids	(Mrs)Rhys Davids	Thanissaro	Walshe	Woodward
sassata	Endlessness								Eternalism

Pali Text Society, Pali English Dictionary:
sassata: Sassata (p. 700) (adj.) [Vedic sasvat] eternal, perpetual D I.13; III.31 sq., 137 sq.; M I.8, 426; A I.41; Dh 255; Dhs 1099; J I.468; Miln 413; DA I.112; dhuvasassata sure and certain Bu II.111 sq.=J I.19; sassatiy¤ for ever, Sn 1075; a--sassata J V.176; VI.315; sassat¤ya¸ adv. (dat.) for ever (?) J I.468; V.172; Fausboll takes it=sassat¤ ayam (following the C.), and writes sassat'¤ya¸. -ditthi eternalism, the doctrine that soul and world are eternal Dhs 1315; S II.20; III.98; Nett 40, 127. -m¬la eternalist Dpvs 6, 25. -vada an eternalist, eternalism D I.13; III.108; S II.20; III.99, 182; IV.400; Pug 38; DA I.104 sq.; Ps I.155; VbhA 509. -v¤din eternalist Nett 111; Mhbv 110
PED On Line: Sassata

With reference to the Mulapariyaya, -- and I have no authority for this other than as it is the way I learned this from certain of my teachers whose credentials it would be very hard to check -- I believe somehow "sabba" has been substituted for "Sassata" where the idea of the eternal, perpetual, the doctrine that soul and world are eternal, would fit better...that is, in the sequence: ekatta, oneness; nanatta, diversity; s.; and Nibbana.