Aṅguttara Nikāya - The Numerical Discourses

10: The Book of the Tens

88. One Who Insults

1"Bhikkhus, when a bhikkhu is one who insults and disparages his fellow monks, a reviler of the noble ones, it is impossible and inconceivable that he will not incur at least one of these ten disasters. What ten? (1) He does not achieve what he has not yet achieved. (2) He falls away from what he has achieved. (3) His good qualities are not polished. [n.2108] With Ce, Be, and Mp (Ce and Be) I read saddhammassa na vodāyanti. Ee has the singular verb vodāyati, but the notes in Ee also refer to mss with vodāyanti. Saddhammassa should be resolved saddhammā assa. Mp: "The good qualities of the teaching, consisting in the three trainings, do not become polished for him" (sikkhāttayasaṅkhātā sāsanasaddhammā assa vodānaṁ na gacchanti). (4) He overestimates his good qualities, or (5) leads the spiritual life dissatisfied, or (6) commits a certain defiled offense, or (7) contracts a severe illness, or (8) goes mad and becomes mentally deranged. (9) He dies confused. (10) With the breakup of the body, after death, he is reborn in the plane of misery, in a bad destination, in the lower world, in hell. When a bhikkhu is one who insults and disparages his fellow monks, a reviler of the noble ones, it is impossible and inconceivable that he will not incur at least one of these ten disasters."

1"Yo so, bhikkhave, bhikkhu akkosakaparibhāsako ariyūpavādī sabrahmacārīnaṁ ṭhānametaṁ avakāso yaṁ so dasannaṁ byasanānaṁ aññataraṁ byasanaṁ nigaccheyya. Katamesaṁ dasannaṁ? Anadhigataṁ nādhigacchati, adhigatā parihāyati, saddhammassa na vodāyanti, saddhammesu vā adhimāniko hoti anabhirato vā brahmacariyaṁ carati, aññataraṁ vā saṅkiliṭṭhaṁ āpattiṁ āpajjati, gāḷhaṁ vā rogātaṅkaṁ phusati, ummādaṁ vā pāpuṇāti cittakkhepaṁ, sammūḷho kālaṁ karoti, kāyassa bhedā paraṁ maraṇā apāyaṁ duggatiṁ vinipātaṁ nirayaṁ upapajjati. Yo so, bhikkhave, bhikkhu akkosakaparibhāsako ariyūpavādī sabrahmacārīnaṁ, ṭhānametaṁ avakāso yaṁ so imesaṁ dasannaṁ byasanānaṁ aññataraṁ byasanaṁ nigaccheyyā"ti.


Aṭṭhamaṁ.

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