Aṅguttara Nikāya - The Numerical Discourses

4: The Book of the Fours

140. Speakers

1"Bhikkhus, there are these four speakers. What four? (1) There is the speaker who exhausts the meaning but not the phrasing. (2) There is the speaker who exhausts the phrasing but not the meaning. (3) There is the speaker who exhausts both the meaning and the phrasing. (4) And there is the speaker who does not exhaust either the meaning or the phrasing. These are the four speakers. It is impossible and inconceivable that one who possesses the four analytical knowledges will exhaust either the meaning or the phrasing." [n.835] On the four analytical knowledges (paṭisambhidā), see below note 875.

1"Cattārome, bhikkhave, vādī. Katame cattāro? Atthi, bhikkhave, vādī atthato pariyādānaṁ gacchati, no byañjanato; atthi, bhikkhave, vādī byañjanato pariyādānaṁ gacchati, no atthato; atthi, bhikkhave, vādī atthato ca byañjanato ca pariyādānaṁ gacchati; atthi, bhikkhave, vādī nevatthato no byañjanato pariyādānaṁ gacchati. Ime kho, bhikkhave, cattāro vādī. Aṭṭhānametaṁ, bhikkhave, anavakāso yaṁ catūhi paṭisambhidāhi samannāgato atthato vā byañjanato vā pariyādānaṁ gaccheyyā"ti.


Dasamaṁ.
Puggalavaggo catuttho.

2Saṁyojanaṁ paṭibhāno,
ugghaṭitaññu uṭṭhānaṁ;
Sāvajjo dve ca sīlāni,
nikaṭṭha dhamma vādī cāti.

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