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Aṅguttara Nikāya - The Numerical Discourses

10: The Book of the Tens

II. A Protector — AN 10.12: Five Factors

1“Mendicants, in this teaching and training a mendicant who has given up five factors and possesses five factors is called consummate, accomplished, a supreme person.

And how has a mendicant given up five factors? It’s when a mendicant has given up sensual desire, ill will, dullness and drowsiness, restlessness and remorse, and doubt. That’s how a mendicant has given up five factors.

And how does a mendicant have five factors? It’s when a mendicant has the entire spectrum of an adept’s ethics, immersion, wisdom, freedom, and knowledge and vision of freedom. That’s how a mendicant has five factors.

3In this teaching and training a mendicant who has given up five factors and possesses five factors is called consummate, accomplished, a supreme person.


4Sensual desire, ill will,
dullness and drowsiness,
restlessness, and doubt
are not found in a mendicant at all.

5One like this is accomplished
in an adept’s ethics,
an adept’s immersion,
and freedom and knowledge.

6Possessing these five factors,
and rid of five factors,
in this teaching and training
they’re called ‘consummate’.”

1"Pañcaṅgavippahīno, bhikkhave, bhikkhu pañcaṅgasamannāgato imasmiṁ dhammavinaye ‘kevalī vusitavā uttamapuriso’ti vuccati.

Kathañca, bhikkhave, bhikkhu pañcaṅgavippahīno hoti? Idha, bhikkhave, bhikkhuno kāmacchando pahīno hoti, byāpādo pahīno hoti, thinamiddhaṁ pahīnaṁ hoti, uddhaccakukkuccaṁ pahīnaṁ hoti, vicikicchā pahīnā hoti. Evaṁ kho, bhikkhave, bhikkhu pañcaṅgavippahīno hoti.

2Kathañca, bhikkhave, bhikkhu pañcaṅgasamannāgato hoti? Idha, bhikkhave, bhikkhu asekhena sīlakkhandhena samannāgato hoti, asekhena samādhikkhandhena samannāgato hoti, asekhena paññākkhandhena samannāgato hoti, asekhena vimuttikkhandhena samannāgato hoti, asekhena vimuttiñāṇadassanakkhandhena samannāgato hoti. Evaṁ kho, bhikkhave, bhikkhu pañcaṅgasamannāgato hoti.

3Pañcaṅgavippahīno kho, bhikkhave, bhikkhu pañcaṅgasamannāgato imasmiṁ dhammavinaye ‘kevalī vusitavā uttamapuriso’ti vuccati.


4Kāmacchando ca byāpādo,
thinamiddhañca bhikkhuno;
Uddhaccaṁ vicikicchā ca,
sabbasova na vijjati.

5Asekhena ca sīlena,
asekhena samādhinā;
Vimuttiyā ca sampanno,
ñāṇena ca tathāvidho.

6Sa ve pañcaṅgasampanno,
pañca aṅge vivajjayaṁ;
Imasmiṁ dhammavinaye,
kevalī iti vuccatī"ti.

Dutiyaṁ.