A discourse on the simile of the royal elephant, identical in content with the sutta more commonly known as the Hatthirāja Sutta.

A discourse in which the Buddha likens a novice who copied senior monks’ habit of lingering too long in lay households to young elephants who, unlike a skilled elder elephant, could not clean muddy lotus-stalks before eating and fell sick.

A discourse comparing monks who develop the Noble Eightfold Path to snakes of the Himalayas that grow ever larger after making their way into the sea.

A discourse listing four qualities required of a royal elephant — being a good listener, slayer, endurer and traveller — as an analogy for the qualities that make a monk worthy of the world’s respect and offerings.

A discourse, also known as the Nāgopama Sutta, in which the Buddha, after onlookers marvel at King Pasenadi’s elephant Seta, teaches that a truly great being is one who commits no wrong in deed, word or thought, prompting Udāyī to praise the Buddha in verse as such an elephant.

A discourse comparing a monk who withdraws into solitude to purify himself of defilements to a forest elephant that, wearied of its herd, breaks away to live alone.