一部經，大迦旃延將佛陀關於妄想根源的簡略教示——由根塵接觸經受、想而生戲論——詳加闡釋，獲佛陀讚許，此經因而得名「蜜丸經」。

A discourse in which Mahā-Kaccāna expands the Buddha’s brief teaching on the roots of mental obsession — how contact through the senses leads through feeling and perception to conceptual proliferation — earning the Buddha’s praise and giving the sutta its name, the honey-ball.