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Aññā

aññindriyaṃ A~n~naa, Omniscience

It is not the ability to know and see all things at all times,
it is the ability to know what one wishes to know whenever one wishes to know it.

 

References:

DhammaTalk, On Omniscience
[MN 90]
PTS, Middle Length Sayings, II, #90: At Kannakatthala, Horner, trans., pp309;
WP, Nanamoli/Bodhi, The Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha, #90: At Kannakatthala
ATI: At Kannakatthala Thanissaro Bhikkhu, trans.
MN 112


Pāḷi MO Hare Horner Punnaji Bodhi Nanamoli Rhys Davids (Mrs)Rhys Davids Thanissaro Walshe Woodward Warren
Aññā Omniscience, Answer Knowledge Profound Knowledge, Knowledge Omnicience Final Knowledge, Knowledge Final Knowledge Knowledge Realization

 


 

Pāḷi Text Society
Pāḷi English Dictionary
Edited by T. W. Rhys Davids and William Stede
[EDITED ENTRY]

Aññā: [Sk. ājñā, = ā + jñā, cp. ājānāti] knowledge, recognition, perfect knowledge, philosophic insight, knowledge par excellence, viz. Arahantship, saving knowledge, gnosis...M I.445; S I.4...24...II.221; V.69, 129...133, 237; A III.82, 143, 192; V.108... - aññaṃ vyākaroti to manifest ones Arahantship (by a discourse or by mere exclamation) Vin I.183; S II.51 sq., 120; IV.139; V.222; J I.140; II.333...

 


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