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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: 19 of 31
url: https://scriptura.si/works/pali-anguttara-nikaya-1/19/
cite: "The Buddha, tr. Bhikkhu Sujato, Numbered Discourses: The Ones · Aṅguttara Nikāya · Ekakanipāta, section 19. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/pali-anguttara-nikaya-1/19/"
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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.

## 19. Chapter Six · AN 1.248–1.257

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/pali-anguttara-nikaya-1/19/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/pali-anguttara-nikaya-1/19/#p-N

[¶0] AN 1.248

> Pali: AN 1.248

[¶1] “The foremost of my laymen disciples in first going for refuge are the merchants Tapussa and Bhallika.”

> Pali: “Etadaggaṁ, bhikkhave, mama sāvakānaṁ upāsakānaṁ paṭhamaṁ saraṇaṁ gacchantānaṁ yadidaṁ tapussabhallikā vāṇijā.

[¶2] AN 1.249

> Pali: AN 1.249

[¶3] “… as a donor is the householder Sudatta Anāthapiṇḍika.”

> Pali: … Dāyakānaṁ yadidaṁ sudatto gahapati anāthapiṇḍiko.

[¶4] AN 1.250

> Pali: AN 1.250

[¶5] “… who speak on the teaching is the householder Citta of Macchikāsaṇḍika.”

> Pali: … Dhammakathikānaṁ yadidaṁ citto gahapati macchikāsaṇḍiko.

[¶6] AN 1.251

> Pali: AN 1.251

[¶7] “… who attract a congregation by the four ways of being inclusive is Hatthaka of Āḷavī.”

> Pali: … Catūhi saṅgahavatthūhi parisaṁ saṅgaṇhantānaṁ yadidaṁ hatthako āḷavako.

[¶8] AN 1.252

> Pali: AN 1.252

[¶9] “… who donate fine things is Mahānāma the Sakyan.”

> Pali: … Paṇītadāyakānaṁ yadidaṁ mahānāmo sakko.

[¶10] AN 1.253

> Pali: AN 1.253

[¶11] “… who donate nice things is the householder Ugga of Vesālī.”

> Pali: … Manāpadāyakānaṁ yadidaṁ uggo gahapati vesāliko.

[¶12] AN 1.254

> Pali: AN 1.254

[¶13] “… who attend on the Saṅgha is the householder Uggata of Elephant Village.”

> Pali: … Saṅghupaṭṭhākānaṁ yadidaṁ hatthigāmako uggato gahapati.

[¶14] AN 1.255

> Pali: AN 1.255

[¶15] “… who have experiential confidence is Sūra Ambaṭṭha.”

> Pali: … Aveccappasannānaṁ yadidaṁ sūrambaṭṭho.

[¶16] AN 1.256

> Pali: AN 1.256

[¶17] “… who have confidence in an individual is Jīvaka Komārabhacca.”

> Pali: … Puggalappasannānaṁ yadidaṁ jīvako komārabhacco.

[¶18] AN 1.257

> Pali: AN 1.257

[¶19] “… who are trusting is the householder Nakula’s father.”

> Pali: … Vissāsakānaṁ yadidaṁ nakulapitā gahapatī”ti.

[¶20] > Pali: Vaggo chaṭṭho.