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Aṅguttara Nikāya - The Numerical Discourses

11: The Book of the Elevens

992–1151.

1"Bhikkhus, for direct knowledge … for full understanding … for the utter destruction … for the abandoning … for the destruction … for the vanishing … for the fading away … for the cessation … for the giving up … for the relinquishment of hatred … of delusion … of anger … of hostility … of denigration … of insolence … of envy … of miserliness … of deceitfulness … of craftiness … of obstinacy … of vehemence … of conceit … of arrogance … of intoxication … of heedlessness … these eleven things are to be developed."

1"Dosassa … pe … mohassa … kodhassa … upanāhassa … makkhassa … paḷāsassa … issāya … macchariyassa … māyāya … sāṭheyyassa … thambhassa … sārambhassa … mānassa … atimānassa … madassa … pamādassa abhiññāya … pe … pariññāya … parikkhayāya … pahānāya … khayāya … vayāya … virāgāya … nirodhāya … cāgāya … paṭinissaggāya ime ekādasa dhammā bhāvetabbā"ti.



2This is what the Blessed One said. Elated, those bhikkhus delighted in the Blessed One's statement.

2Idamavoca bhagavā. Attamanā te bhikkhū bhagavato bhāsitaṁ abhinandunti.

Rāgapeyyālaṁ niṭṭhitaṁ.

3Nava suttasahassāni,
bhiyyo pañcasatāni ca;
Sattapaññāsa suttantā,
aṅguttarasamāyutāti.

The Book of the Elevens is finished.

Ekādasakanipātapāḷi niṭṭhitā.
Aṅguttaranikāyo samatto.