In the fifth book of the Samyutta Nikáya a repetition under the name of Gangápeyyála occurs several times. "Just as the Gangá flows to the east, slides to the east, and tends to the east, even so, a monk who cultivates the bojjhangas (S.v.135, 137), the satipatthánas (196), the indriyas (239, 241), the padhánas (244), the balas 249, 251), the iddhi-pádas (290), and the jhánas (307), slides and tends towards nibbána."