Aṇguttara-Nikāya
I. Ekanipāta
The Book of the Gradual Sayings
or
More-Numbered Suttas
Part I
The Book of the Ones
Suttas 211-234
Translated from the Pali by
F.L. Woodward, M.A.
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[211][olds] Monks, chief among my disciples
who are first to receive food-tickets
is Kuṇḍa-Dhāna.[71]
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[212][olds] Monks, chief among my disciples
who are pre-eminent for ready wit
is Vangīsa.[72]
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[213][olds] Monks, chief among my disciples
who are altogether charming[73]
is Upasena, Vanganta's son.
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[214][olds] Monks, chief among my disciples
who assign quarters
is Dabba of the Mallas.[74]
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[215][olds] Monks, chief among my disciples
who are dear and delightful to the devas
is Pilindavaccha.[75]
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[216][olds] Monks, chief among my disciples
who are quick to win abnormal powers
is Bāhiya the Bark-clad.[76]
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[217][olds] Monks, chief among my disciples
who are brilliant speakers
is Kassapa the Boy.[77]
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[218][olds] Monks, chief among my disciples
who are masters of logical analysis
is Koṭṭhita the Great.[78]
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[219][olds] 'Monks, chief among my disciples,
monks who are of wide knowledge,
is Ānanda.[79]
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[220][olds] 'Monks, chief among my disciples,
monks who are of retentive memory,[80]
is Ānanda
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[221][olds] 'Monks, chief among my disciples,
monks who are of good behaviour,[81]
is Ānanda.
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[222][olds] 'Monks, chief among my disciples,
monks who are who are resolute,[82]
is Ānanda
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[223][olds] 'Monks, chief among my disciples,
monks who are personal attendants,
is Ānanda.
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[224][olds] 'Monks, chief among my disciples,
monks who are of large followings,
is Kassapa of Uruveḷā.[83]
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[225][olds] 'Monks, chief among my disciples,
monks who are good at reconciling families,
is Kāludāyin.[84]
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[226][olds] 'Monks, chief among my disciples,
monks who are of good health,
is Bakkula.[85]
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[227][olds] 'Monks, chief among my disciples,
monks who are able to recall past existences,
is Sobhita.[86]
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[228][olds] 'Monks, chief among my disciples,
monks who know the disciplinary rules by heart,
is Upāli.[87]
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[229][olds] 'Monks, chief among my disciples,
monks who are admonishers of the nuns,
is Nandaka.[88]
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[230][olds] 'Monks, chief among my disciples,
monks who guard the doors of sense,
is Nanda.[89]
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[231][olds] 'Monks, chief among my disciples,
monks who are admonishers of the monks,
is Kappina the Great.[90]
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[232][olds] 'Monks, chief among my disciples,
monks good at contemplation of the heat-element,
is Sāgata.[91]
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[233][olds] 'Monks, chief among my disciples,
monks impromptu speakers,
is Rādha.[92]
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[234][olds] 'Monks, chief among my disciples,
monks wearers of coarse robes,
is Mogharājan.[93]
[71] Cf. Brethr. 19; Ap. 81. The name is that of a town of the Koliyans (UdA. 122). Kuṇḍa was a yakkha who lived in a forest. Comy. calls him Dhāna-Koṇḍa (? crooked, cripple). Cf. SA. ii on S. iv, 63 (Puṇṇa).
[72] Cf. Brethr. 395; Ap. 495. A 'skull-tapper' or psychometrizer of dead men's skulls. The story is told at Comy. on Dhp. v, 419. His name gives the title to S. i, viii (K.S. i, 234).
[73] Sāmanta-pasādīkā (also the title of the Vinaya Comy.), Cf. Brethr. 261, 422; UdA. 266, acc. to which he was younger brother of Sāriputta. He was complimented by the Master on his charming retinue: Ap. 62.
[74] Cf. Brethr. l0; Ap. 471, senāsanaṇ paññāpayiṇ hāsayitvāna; Vin. ii. 305. He appears to have been a skilled major domo, and is credited with having lighted the brethren to their quarters by his magically illuminated thumb. Cf. Gotama the Man, 178.
[75] Cf. Brethr. 14; Ap. 59; UdA. 192. Pilinda his name, Vaccha his clan. He was waited on by a former disciple, reborn as a deva.
[76] Cf. UdA. 77; Ap. 475. He was of Bahiya and wore robes of fibrous bark (dārucīra). Acc. to our Comy. he attained arahantship just on hearing an address, without previous study: hence the title. It is curious that he is not mentioned in Theragāthā. Verse 101 of Dhp. is ascribed to him.
[77] Cf. Brethr. 147; Ap. 473. So called because he joined the Order young.
[78] Cf. Brethr. 6; Ap. 479; S. ii, 112. For paṭisambhidā see supra, § 13 n. See also refs. below on p. 118 of text.
[79] Cf. Brethr. 349; Ap. 52. The loyal disciple, cousin and constant attendant for twenty years of the Master. So called at birth: 'born to bliss.' He is said to have become Arahant after the Buddha's death and just before the First Council.
[80] Satimant. He could remember all the Buddha said.
[81] Gatimant. Acc. to Dhammapāla 'good at walking.'
[82] Dhitimant.
[83] Cf. Brethr. 206; Ap. 481. One of three brothers of this name.
[84] Cf. Brethr. 248; Ap. 85, 500. Born on the same day as the Buddha, and his play-fellow. So called from his dark complexion. He was able to induce the Buddha to visit his father Suddhodana.
[85] Or Bākula. Cf. Brethr. 159. Comy. derives the name from bā-kula (two families); bi-kin, as Mrs. Rhys Davids turns it. Swallowed as a child by a fish (a Jonah), he was cut out and brought up by a fisherman's wife. The parents and foster-parents therefore shared him by the king's command. Living eighty years on a 'two-finger' allowance of rice he never had the slightest ailment. Ap. 330, deva-bhūto manusso vā appābādho bhavissati.
[86] Cf. Brethr. 131; Ap. 163.
[87] Cf. Brethr. 168; Ap. 37, 91. A barber's son and follower of Anuruddha (but see Gotama the Man, 215). At the First Council he was chosen to recite Vinaya.
[88] Of Sīvatthī. Cf. infra, text 193; Brethr. 178; Ap. 499. He converted 500 women at one sermon. Cf. Majjh. iii, 270.
[89] Younger brother of Gotama. Ordained against his wish on the day of his marriage by the Master. Evidently a fop and strongly attached to worldly things, he is afterwards admonished at K.S. ii, 191. Cf. Brethr. 126; Ap. 57.
[90] Cf. Brethr. 254; Ap. 468. One of the twelve 'great disciples'; '(?) pale, thin, with a prominent nose' (K.S. ii, 194), he succeeded his father as rājah and renounced his realm to follow the Master. See Sakya, or Buddhist Origins, p. 140.
[91] Cf. Ap. 83, tejo-dhātūsu kovido. No verses of Thag. are assigned to him. At one time he was personal attendant of the Master. Cf. Brethr. 350; UdA. 217. For the concentration on tejo-dhātū Cf. VM. 171, 363.
[92] Cf. Brethr. 115; S. iii, 79 (K.S. iii, 66; iv, 25); Ap. 484. Similar eminence is ascribed to Vangīsa above.
[93] Cf. Brethr. 151. Born a brāhmin, he became an ascetic and made robes of rags roughly cut, sewn and dyed. Cf. Ap. 87, 486.
