Fruit of the First Path / Sotapatti / Stream-Enterer / Stream-Enterers / First Path

Literal Meaning

Stream-entry

Etymology & Sanskrit Root

Pali 'sotapatti' (entering the stream); the first of four stages of awakening recognized in the Pali Canon.

Spiritual Insight & Context

A stream-enterer has permanently cut the ties to wrong view and doubt and is guaranteed full awakening within at most seven more lifetimes; many Jataka tales close with a listener reaching exactly this attainment.

Where Fruit of the First Path / Sotapatti / Stream-Enterer / Stream-Enterers / First Path Comes Up

Kisa Gotami and the Mustard Seed

A grieving mother seeks a mustard seed to revive her dead son and learns, house by house, that death spares no family, per Dhammapada verse 114.

Alambusā Jātaka

The Nymph, the Sage and His Lost Years

Apaṇṇaka Jātaka

The Caravan and the Goblin Desert

Āsaṅka Jātaka

The Maiden Born in a Lotus and Her Name

Bandhanāgāra Jātaka

Bonds Stronger Than Iron

Bhisa Jataka

The Lotus Roots and Sakka's Test