Aṇguttara Nikāya
Catukka Nipāta
XXIV: Kamma Vagga
The Book of the Gradual Sayings
The Book of the Fours
Chapter XXIV: The Deed[1]
Sutta 231
Paṭhama Kamma Suttaṃ
In Brief
Translated from the Pali by F. L. Woodward, M.A.
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[1] Thus have I heard:
On a certain occasion the Exalted One was staying near Sāvatthī.
Then the Exalted One addressed the monks, saying:
"Monks."
"Yes, lord," they replied,
and the Exalted One said:
"Monks, these four deeds I have myself comprehended,
realized
and made known.
What four?
There is a dark deed
with a dark result;
a bright deed
with a bright result;
a deed that is both dark and bright,
with a dark and bright result;
and the deed that is neither dark nor bright,
with a result neither dark nor bright,
which being itself a deed
conduces to the waning of deeds.[2]
These four deeds I have myself comprehended,
realized
and made known."
[1] Comy. calls this Magga-Vagga.
[2] Cf. Expos. i, 118; Netti, 159 (which calls the last named nibbedho); A. iii, 384. Cf. also K.S. i, p. 118 f.
