Kumbha Sutta

1. Kumbha Sutta.-A pot without support is easily upset, so is it with the mind. Support for the mind is the Noble Eightfold Path. S.v.20f.

2. Kumbha Sutta.-A pot, if overset, empties out its water and cannot take it in again. A monk, cultivating the Eightfold Path, empties out Ill and cannot take it in again. S.v.48.
 

Dictionary of Pali Proper Names, G P Malalasekera (1899-1973), which is available as printed version from