Aṅguttara Nikāya
X. Dasaka-Nipāta
IX: Thera-Vagga
The Book of the Gradual Sayings
X. The Book of the Tens
IX: The Elders
Sutta 88
Akkosaka Suttaɱ
Disaster (a)[1]
Translated from the Pali by F. L. Woodward, M.A.
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[1] THUS have I heard:
Once the Exalted One was dwelling near Sāvatthī.
There the Exalted One addressed the monks, saying:
"Monks."
"Yes, lord," they replied, and the Exalted One said:
"Monks, if any monk abuses and reviles,
rails at the Ariyans who are his fellows in the Brahma-life,
it is utterly impossible,
it is unavoidable,
that he should not come to one or other of ten disasters.
What ten?
[1] He fails to attain the unattained,
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[2] from what he has attained [113]
he falls away,[2]
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[3] true dhamma is not made clear for him;[3]
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[4] or else he is over-conceited about true dhamma,[4]
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[5] or he follows the Brahma-life without delight therein,
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[6] or he commits some foul offence,
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[7] or falls into some grievous sickness,
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[8] or goes out of his mind with distraction;
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[9] he makes an end with mind confused,
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[10] and when body breaks up,
beyond death,
he rises up again in the Waste,
the Ill-bourn,
the Downfall,
in purgatory.
Monks, if any monk abuses and reviles,
rails at the Ariyans who are his fellows in the Brahma-life,
it is utterly impossible,
it is unavoidable,
that he should not come to one or other of these ten disasters."
[1] N°(b) with eleven results is at XI, § 6.
[2] Cf. A. ii, 252; G.S. ii, 185.
[3] Saddhamm'assa na vodāyati. Comy. has sāsana-saddhammā assa vodānaɱ na gacchanti.
[4] Cf. § vi. Seven Sad'Dhammas frequently named are: saddhā, hiri-ottappaɱ, bahu-s-sutaɱ, saccaɱ, āraddha-viriya, sati, paññā. These may be regarded as personal convictions or attainments. (I translate at K.S. iii, 69, as 'the seven domains of good,' but I doubt whether this is correct.) [Ed.: Perhaps edited? But the closest thing I can find there is: 'the seven abodes'. No mention of seven Sad'Dhammas.]
