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Aṅguttara Nikāya - The Numerical Discourses

10: The Book of the Tens

I. Benefits — AN 10.10: Inspiring All Around: the Three Knowledges

1“A mendicant is faithful, but not ethical. So they’re incomplete in that respect, and should fulfill it, thinking: ‘How can I become faithful and ethical?’ When the mendicant is faithful and ethical, they’re complete in that respect.

2A mendicant is faithful and ethical, but not learned … they’re not a Dhamma speaker … they don’t frequent assemblies … they don’t teach Dhamma to the assembly with assurance … they’re not an expert in the training … they don’t recollect their many kinds of past lives … they don’t, with clairvoyance that is purified and superhuman, see sentient beings passing away and being reborn … they don’t realize the undefiled freedom of heart and freedom by wisdom in this very life, and live having realized it with their own insight due to the ending of defilements.

So they’re incomplete in that respect, and should fulfill it, thinking: ‘How can I become faithful, ethical, and educated, a Dhamma speaker, one who frequents assemblies, one who teaches Dhamma to the assembly with assurance, an expert in the training, one who recollects their many kinds of past lives, one who with clairvoyance that surpasses the human sees sentient beings passing away and being reborn, and one who lives having realized the ending of defilements?’

3When they are faithful, ethical, and educated, a Dhamma speaker, one who frequents assemblies, one who teaches Dhamma to the assembly with assurance, an expert in the training, one who recollects their many kinds of past lives, one who with clairvoyance that surpasses the human sees sentient beings passing away and being reborn, and one who lives having realized the ending of defilements, they’re complete in that respect.

A mendicant who has these ten qualities is inspiring all around, and is complete in every respect.”


1"Saddho ca, bhikkhave, bhikkhu hoti, no ca sīlavā. Evaṁ so tenaṅgena aparipūro hoti. Tena taṁ aṅgaṁ paripūretabbaṁ:  ‘kintāhaṁ saddho ca assaṁ sīlavā cā’ti. Yato ca kho, bhikkhave, bhikkhu saddho ca hoti, sīlavā ca, evaṁ so tenaṅgena paripūro hoti.

2Saddho ca, bhikkhave, bhikkhu hoti sīlavā ca, no ca bahussuto bahussuto ca, no ca dhammakathiko … pe … dhammakathiko ca, no ca parisāvacaro parisāvacaro ca, no ca visārado parisāya dhammaṁ deseti visārado ca parisāya dhammaṁ deseti, no ca vinayadharo vinayadharo ca, no ca anekavihitaṁ pubbenivāsaṁ anussarati, seyyathidaṁ – ekampi jātiṁ dvepi jātiyo … pe … iti sākāraṁ sauddesaṁ anekavihitaṁ pubbenivāsaṁ anussarati. Anekavihitañca … pe … pubbenivāsaṁ anussarati, no ca dibbena cakkhunā visuddhena atikkantamānusakena … pe … yathākammūpage satte pajānāti dibbena ca cakkhunā visuddhena atikkantamānusakena … pe … yathākammūpage satte pajānāti, no ca āsavānaṁ khayā … pe … sacchikatvā upasampajja viharati.

Evaṁ so tenaṅgena aparipūro hoti. Tena taṁ aṅgaṁ paripūretabbaṁ:  ‘kintāhaṁ saddho ca assaṁ, sīlavā ca, bahussuto ca, dhammakathiko ca, parisāvacaro ca, visārado ca parisāya dhammaṁ deseyyaṁ, vinayadharo ca, anekavihitañca pubbenivāsaṁ anussareyyaṁ, seyyathidaṁ – ekampi jātiṁ dvepi jātiyo … pe … iti sākāraṁ sauddesaṁ anekavihitaṁ pubbenivāsaṁ anussareyyaṁ, dibbena ca cakkhunā visuddhena atikkantamānusakena … pe … yathākammūpage satte pajāneyyaṁ, āsavānañca khayā … pe … sacchikatvā upasampajja vihareyyan’ti.

3Yato ca kho, bhikkhave, bhikkhu saddho ca hoti, sīlavā ca, bahussuto ca, dhammakathiko ca, parisāvacaro ca, visārado ca parisāya dhammaṁ deseti, vinayadharo ca, anekavihitañca pubbenivāsaṁ anussarati, seyyathidaṁ – ekampi jātiṁ dvepi jātiyo … pe … iti sākāraṁ sauddesaṁ anekavihitaṁ pubbenivāsaṁ anussarati, dibbena ca cakkhunā visuddhena atikkantamānusakena … pe … yathākammūpage satte pajānāti, āsavānañca khayā anāsavaṁ cetovimuttiṁ paññāvimuttiṁ diṭṭheva dhamme sayaṁ abhiññā sacchikatvā upasampajja viharati. Evaṁ so tenaṅgena paripūro hoti.

Imehi kho, bhikkhave, dasahi dhammehi samannāgato bhikkhu samantapāsādiko ca hoti sabbākāraparipūro cā"ti.


Dasamaṁ.

Ānisaṁsavaggo paṭhamo.

4Kimatthiyaṁ cetanā ca,
tayo upanisāpi ca;
Samādhi sāriputto ca,
jhānaṁ santena vijjayāti.