Aṅguttara Nikāya - The Numerical Discourses

8: The Book of the Eights

85. Designations

1"Bhikkhus, (1) ‘Ascetic’ is a designation for the Tathāgata, the Arahant, the Perfectly Enlightened One. (2) ‘Brahmin’ is a designation for the Tathāgata, the Arahant, the Perfectly Enlightened One. (3) ‘Healer’ … (4) ‘Master of knowledge’ [n.1803] I follow Ce here. Be and Ee put vedagū before bhisakko. … (5) ‘One unstained’ … (6) ‘Stainless one’ … (7) ‘Knower’ … (8) ‘Liberated one’ is a designation for the Tathāgata, the Arahant, the Perfectly Enlightened One."

2That highest state to be attained by an ascetic, [n.1804] The verse as preserved seems incomplete because the relative clauses beginning with yaṁ are not explicitly completed by a demonstrative clause. I thus follow Vanarata's suggestion that an implicit demonstrative corresponding to anuttaraṁ pattabbaṁ should be read into the concluding verse. It seems that vijitasaṅgamo refers precisely to this, and I have thus added "over that" in brackets.
by a brahmin who has lived the spiritual life,
to be attained by a master of knowledge and a healer—
that highest state to be attained by one unstained,

3-4by a stainless one who is purified,
to be attained by a knower, by one liberated—
over that I am triumphant in battle;
freed, I free others from bondage.
I am a nāga, supremely tamed, [n.1805] Ce paramo danto; Be paramadanto; Ee paramaṁ danto. The gloss in Mp, paramadamathena dantattā paramadanto nāma, suggests that parama qualifies danto, not nāgo as in Ce.
one beyond training, attained to nibbāna.

1"‘Samaṇo’ti, bhikkhave, tathāgatassetaṁ adhivacanaṁ arahato sammāsambuddhassa. ‘Brāhmaṇo’ti, bhikkhave, tathāgatassetaṁ adhivacanaṁ arahato sammāsambuddhassa. ‘Vedagū’ti, bhikkhave, tathāgatassetaṁ adhivacanaṁ arahato sammāsambuddhassa. ‘Bhisakko’ti, bhikkhave, tathāgatassetaṁ adhivacanaṁ arahato sammāsambuddhassa. ‘Nimmalo’ti, bhikkhave, tathāgatassetaṁ adhivacanaṁ arahato sammāsambuddhassa. ‘Vimalo’ti, bhikkhave, tathāgatassetaṁ adhivacanaṁ arahato sammāsambuddhassa. ‘Ñāṇī’ti, bhikkhave, tathāgatassetaṁ adhivacanaṁ arahato sammāsambuddhassa. ‘Vimutto’ti, bhikkhave, tathāgatassetaṁ adhivacanaṁ arahato sammāsambuddhassāti.

2Yaṁ samaṇena pattabbaṁ,
brāhmaṇena vusīmatā;
Yaṁ vedagunā pattabbaṁ,
bhisakkena anuttaraṁ.

3Yaṁ nimmalena pattabbaṁ,
vimalena sucīmatā;
Yaṁ ñāṇinā ca pattabbaṁ,
vimuttena anuttaraṁ.

4Sohaṁ vijitasaṅgāmo,
mutto mocemi bandhanā;
Nāgomhi paramadanto,
asekho parinibbuto"ti.


Pañcamaṁ.

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