Aṅguttara Nikāya - The Numerical Discourses

7: The Book of the Sevens

8. Fetters

1"Bhikkhus, there are these seven fetters. [n.1457] Satta saṁyojanāni. The familiar scheme of ten fetters occurs in AN only in AN10.13. What seven? The fetter of compliance, [n.1458] Anunayasaṁyojanaṁ. An unusual listing among the fetters. Mp glosses it as the fetter of sensual lust (kāmarāgasaṁyojanaṁ). the fetter of aversion, the fetter of views, the fetter of doubt, the fetter of conceit, the fetter of lust for existence, and the fetter of ignorance. These are the seven fetters."

1"Sattimāni, bhikkhave, saṁyojanāni. Katamāni satta? Anunayasaṁyojanaṁ, paṭighasaṁyojanaṁ, diṭṭhisaṁyojanaṁ, vicikicchāsaṁyojanaṁ, mānasaṁyojanaṁ, bhavarāgasaṁyojanaṁ, avijjāsaṁyojanaṁ. Imāni kho, bhikkhave, satta saṁyojanānī"ti.


Aṭṭhamaṁ.

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