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Venerables & Friends,
In AN4.170, the Buddha teaches about four paths in terms of maggo sañjāyati. In Ven. Sujato’s translation of the sutta, sañjāyati is translated as born [saṃ + √jan + ya + ti], but i could not help but notice that sañjāyati sounds like the sixth heretical teacher listed in DN2 (Sañjaya).
Is there any relationship between the two?
Thank you 
No, they are different words. Sañjaya is from the root ji (“victory”) whereas sañjāyati is as you mentioned from the root jan.
You can look these up in the Digital Pali Dictionary.
Thank you Bhante for your answer
I accept at face value your input about the pali, and i am very grateful for everything you have done to make the dhamma more accessible to people like myself. However, i would not be truthful to you nor to myself to consider your answer satisfactory and i will explain why.
If Sañjaya has the connotations of victory, i can’t help but wonder why his record in Buddhist records presents him as a loser of some sort. In DN2, we read:
‘This is the most foolish and stupid of all these ascetics and brahmins!
‘ayañca imesaṁ samaṇabrāhmaṇānaṁ sabbabālo sabbamūḷho.
And in the story of Ven. Sariputta we read:
So the two friends left, saying: “You will come to understand your mistake, O teacher!” And after they had gone there was a split among Sañjaya’s pupils, and his monastery became almost empty. Seeing his place empty, Sañjaya vomited hot blood. Five hundred of his disciples had left along with Upatissa and Kolita, out of whom two hundred and fifty returned to Sañjaya. With the remaining two hundred and fifty, and their own following, the two friends arrived at the Bamboo Grove Monastery.
How things unfolded seem to cement his position as both a victor and an outsider - who has a role to play in Buddhas dispensations. Taking an equal stance from both Brahmana and samaṇa seem to vindicate him. King Ajātasattu who accused him of being foolish and of flip-flopping could not attain Sotāpanna because he killed his father. Different understandings in relation to what ariya sāvaka mean caused a split between Theravada and Mahayana where the former is deemed an inferior vehicle. During the first council, we know of the five hundred elders who recited the suttas, and the five hundered followers of the monk Purana, but we know little of the 250 remaining monks of Gautama Buddha dispensation who did not take part in the quarrel if numbers are indicative of anything.
Ven. Ananda was ariyasāvako (Sotāpanna) as an attendant of Gautama Buddha, but he did not get the Buddha’s hint of being able to live for the rest of the Kappa - for his mind was as if possessed by Māra as per AN8.70. Such unfortunate lack of attention to the Buddha’s hint paves the way to the emergence of Buddha Metteyya as the last sammasambuddha of this kappa. As a regularity of all Buddhas, the great miracle at Savatthi will be performed - where the six heretical teachers (or what they represent) will be present, of which Sañjaya is the sixth. The description of the miracle is described in Brahmanic/Abrahamic sources as flip-flopping of some sorts, where they describe the end of time in terms of the real and false messiahs.
The Dajjaal would have with him water and fire and his fire would have the effect of cold water and his water would have the effect of fire, so don’t put yourself to ruin.
The Dajjaal in Arabic is the false messiah. The Buddha told Ven. Mahakassapa that the true dhamma will emerge after a false dhamma. Are we towards the end of Gautama Buddha dispensation? and whether maggo sañjāyati has anything to do with it, we shall wait and see.