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title: "Numbered Discourses: The Ones · Aṅguttara Nikāya · Ekakanipāta"
author: "The Buddha"
translator: "Bhikkhu Sujato"
languages: [pi, en]
shelf: "Pali Canon"
section: 13 of 31
url: https://scriptura.si/works/pali-anguttara-nikaya-1/13/
cite: "The Buddha, tr. Bhikkhu Sujato, Numbered Discourses: The Ones · Aṅguttara Nikāya · Ekakanipāta, section 13. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/pali-anguttara-nikaya-1/13/"
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# Numbered Discourses: The Ones · Aṅguttara Nikāya · Ekakanipāta

*The Buddha, tr. Bhikkhu Sujato*

Teachings grouped in ones: one thing that obsesses the mind, one thing that leads to great harm, the one person born for the welfare of the world.

> Pali: the Mahāsaṅgīti Tipiṭaka (Buddha Jayanti edition, 2500), from SuttaCentral’s bilara-data, dedicated to the public domain (CC0).

> English: Bhikkhu Sujato, from SuttaCentral’s bilara-data, dedicated to the public domain (CC0). Notes are not included.

> Rows follow the segment numbers the two texts share, gathered into paragraphs; verse keeps its lines.

## 13. The Chapter on One Individual · AN 1.170–1.187

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/pali-anguttara-nikaya-1/13/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/pali-anguttara-nikaya-1/13/#p-N

[¶0] AN 1.170

> Pali: AN 1.170

[¶1] “One individual, mendicants, arises in the world for the welfare and happiness of the people, out of sympathy for the world, for the benefit, welfare, and happiness of gods and humans. What one individual? The Realized One, the perfected one, the fully awakened Buddha. This is the one individual, mendicants, who arises in the world for the welfare and happiness of the people, out of sympathy for the world, for the benefit, welfare, and happiness of gods and humans.”

> Pali: “Ekapuggalo, bhikkhave, loke uppajjamāno uppajjati bahujanahitāya bahujanasukhāya lokānukampāya atthāya hitāya sukhāya devamanussānaṁ. Katamo ekapuggalo? Tathāgato arahaṁ sammāsambuddho. Ayaṁ kho, bhikkhave, ekapuggalo loke uppajjamāno uppajjati bahujanahitāya bahujanasukhāya lokānukampāya atthāya hitāya sukhāya devamanussānan”ti.

[¶2] AN 1.171

> Pali: AN 1.171

[¶3] “The appearance of one individual, mendicants, is rare in the world. What one individual? The Realized One, the perfected one, the fully awakened Buddha. This is the one individual, mendicants, whose appearance is rare in the world.”

> Pali: “Ekapuggalassa, bhikkhave, pātubhāvo dullabho lokasmiṁ. Katamassa ekapuggalassa? Tathāgatassa arahato sammāsambuddhassa. Imassa kho, bhikkhave, ekapuggalassa pātubhāvo dullabho lokasmin”ti.

[¶4] AN 1.172

> Pali: AN 1.172

[¶5] “One individual, mendicants, arises in the world who is an incredible human being. What one individual? The Realized One, the perfected one, the fully awakened Buddha. This is the one individual, mendicants, who arises in the world who is an incredible human being.”

> Pali: “Ekapuggalo, bhikkhave, loke uppajjamāno uppajjati acchariyamanusso. Katamo ekapuggalo? Tathāgato arahaṁ sammāsambuddho. Ayaṁ kho, bhikkhave, ekapuggalo loke uppajjamāno uppajjati acchariyamanusso”ti.

[¶6] AN 1.173

> Pali: AN 1.173

[¶7] “The death of one individual, mendicants, is regretted by many people. What one individual? The Realized One, the perfected one, the fully awakened Buddha. This is the one individual, mendicants, whose death is regretted by many people.”

> Pali: “Ekapuggalassa, bhikkhave, kālakiriyā bahuno janassa anutappā hoti. Katamassa ekapuggalassa? Tathāgatassa arahato sammāsambuddhassa. Imassa kho, bhikkhave, ekapuggalassa kālakiriyā bahuno janassa anutappā hotī”ti.

[¶8] AN 1.174

> Pali: AN 1.174

[¶9] “One individual, mendicants, arises in the world unique, without peer or rival, incomparable, matchless, unrivaled, unequaled, without equal, the best of men. What one individual? The Realized One, the perfected one, the fully awakened Buddha. This is the one individual, mendicants, who arises in the world unique, without peer or rival, incomparable, matchless, unrivaled, unequaled, without equal, the best of men.”

> Pali: “Ekapuggalo, bhikkhave, loke uppajjamāno uppajjati adutiyo asahāyo appaṭimo appaṭisamo appaṭibhāgo appaṭipuggalo asamo asamasamo dvipadānaṁ aggo. Katamo ekapuggalo? Tathāgato arahaṁ sammāsambuddho. Ayaṁ kho, bhikkhave, ekapuggalo loke uppajjamāno uppajjati adutiyo asahāyo appaṭimo appaṭisamo appaṭibhāgo appaṭipuggalo asamo asamasamo dvipadānaṁ aggo”ti.

[¶10] AN 1.175–186 · 175–186

> Pali: AN 1.175–186 · 175–186

[¶11] “With the appearance of one individual, mendicants, there is the appearance of a great eye, a great light, a great radiance, and the six unsurpassable things; the realization of the four kinds of textual analysis; the penetration of many and diverse elements; the realization of the fruit of knowledge and freedom; the realization of the fruits of stream-entry, once-return, non-return, and perfection. What one individual? The Realized One, the perfected one, the fully awakened Buddha. This is the one individual whose appearance brings the appearance of a great eye, a great light, a great radiance, and the six unsurpassable things; the realization of the four kinds of textual analysis; the penetration of many and diverse elements; the realization of the fruit of knowledge and freedom; the realization of the fruits of stream-entry, once-return, non-return, and perfection.”

> Pali: “Ekapuggalassa, bhikkhave, pātubhāvā mahato cakkhussa pātubhāvo hoti, mahato ālokassa pātubhāvo hoti, mahato obhāsassa pātubhāvo hoti, channaṁ anuttariyānaṁ pātubhāvo hoti, catunnaṁ paṭisambhidānaṁ sacchikiriyā hoti, anekadhātupaṭivedho hoti, nānādhātupaṭivedho hoti, vijjāvimuttiphalasacchikiriyā hoti, sotāpattiphalasacchikiriyā hoti, sakadāgāmiphalasacchikiriyā hoti, anāgāmiphalasacchikiriyā hoti, arahattaphalasacchikiriyā hoti. Katamassa ekapuggalassa? Tathāgatassa arahato sammāsambuddhassa. Imassa kho, bhikkhave, ekapuggalassa pātubhāvā mahato cakkhussa pātubhāvo hoti, mahato ālokassa pātubhāvo hoti, mahato obhāsassa pātubhāvo hoti, channaṁ anuttariyānaṁ pātubhāvo hoti, catunnaṁ paṭisambhidānaṁ sacchikiriyā hoti, anekadhātupaṭivedho hoti, nānādhātupaṭivedho hoti, vijjāvimuttiphalasacchikiriyā hoti, sotāpattiphalasacchikiriyā hoti, sakadāgāmiphalasacchikiriyā hoti, anāgāmiphalasacchikiriyā hoti, arahattaphalasacchikiriyā hotī”ti.

[¶12] AN 1.187

> Pali: AN 1.187

[¶13] “Mendicants, I do not see a single other individual who rightly keeps rolling the supreme Wheel of Dhamma that was rolled forth by the Realized One like Sāriputta. Sāriputta rightly keeps rolling the supreme Wheel of Dhamma that was rolled forth by the Realized One.”

> Pali: “Nāhaṁ, bhikkhave, aññaṁ ekapuggalampi samanupassāmi yo evaṁ tathāgatena anuttaraṁ dhammacakkaṁ pavattitaṁ sammadeva anuppavatteti yathayidaṁ, bhikkhave, sāriputto. Sāriputto, bhikkhave, tathāgatena anuttaraṁ dhammacakkaṁ pavattitaṁ sammadeva anuppavattetī”ti.

[¶14] > Pali: Ekapuggalavaggo terasamo.