Aṇguttara-Nikāya
III. Tika Nipāta
XIV. Yodh-ā-jīva Vagga
The Book of the Gradual Sayings
or
More-Numbered Suttas
III. The Book of the Threes
XIV. The Fighting-Man
Sutta 132
Parisā Suttaṃ
Companies
Translated from the Pali by
F.L. Woodward, M.A.
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[1] THUS HAVE I HEARD
Once the Exalted One was dwelling near Sāvatthī.
There the Exalted One addressed the monks, saying:
"Monks."
"Yes, lord," they replied, and the Exalted One said:
"Monks, there are these three companies.
What three?
The company trained in bombast,
the company trained in inquiry,[1]
and the company trained according to its bent.[2]
These are the three companies."
[1] Cf. supra, text 72, where reading is paṭipucchā.
[2] Text yāva-t-ajjha vinītā. Comy. has yāvatā ca vinītā and explains thus: pamāṇa-vasena vinītā, pamāṇaṃ ñatvā v., and adds 'but in the Pāli it means yāva ajjhāsaye = ajjhāsayaṃ ñatvā.'
