Aṇguttara Nikāya
IX. Navaka Nipāta
I. Sambodha Vagga
The Book of the Gradual Sayings
IX. The Book of the Nines
Chapter I: The Awakening
Sutta 10
Ābuneyya-Puggala Suttaṃ
The Venerable
Translated from the Pali by E.M. Hare.
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"Monks, these nine are venerable,
worthy of honour,
worthy of gifts,
worthy of salutations,
the world's unsurpassed field for merit making.
What nine?[ed1]
The Arahant,
he who has attained to arahantship,
the Nonreturner,
he who has attained to the realization of the fruit of the Non-returner,
the Once-retumer,
he who has attained to the realization of the fruit of the Once-returner,
the Streamwinner,
he who has attained to the realization of the fruit of the Streamwinner
and he who has become one of the clan.[1]
[248] Monks, these nine are venerable,
worthy of honour,
worthy of gifts,
worthy of salutations,
the world's unsurpassed field for merit making."
[1] Gotrabhū. Comy. One endowed with exceedingly powerful insight and thought, with immediate prospects of attaining to the state of the Streamwinner and the Way. Lord Chalmers at F. Dial, ii, 300: spiritual clan. The Comy. ad A. v, 23, is much the same as our Comy.; see Child, s.v.; Cpd. 66-8; Vism. trsl 160; Expositor 56, 310 ff.
[ed1] Omitted by Hare.
