身業こそ最も咎ありとするジャイナ教の見解に対して仏陀が意業こそ最も咎ありと説き、居士ウパーリの改宗を記した経で、最後はウパーリの賛美の偈で締めくくられる

A discourse recording the conversion of the householder Upāli, in which the Buddha, against the Jain view that bodily deeds are most blameworthy, teaches that deeds of mind are the most blameworthy, concluding with Upāli’s verses of praise.

ウパーリ長老が仏陀に、僧の戒律とパーティモッカの誦戒がいかなる十の目的のために制定されたのか、またそれを停止しうる十の理由は何かを尋ねる経

A discourse in which Upāli Thera asks the Buddha for what ten purposes the monastic precepts and the recitation of the Pāṭimokkha were established, and the ten reasons that justify its suspension.

心の静けさを得る前に森の孤独へ退くことを望むウパーリ長老を、成長した象と深い湖で戯れる兎の譬えで諭し、比丘たちの中に留まるよう勧める仏陀の経

A discourse in which the Buddha dissuades Upāli Thera from retiring to forest solitude before attaining mental tranquillity, illustrating with the simile of a full-grown elephant versus a hare disporting in a deep lake, and advises him to remain among the monks.