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#### Aṅguttara Nikāya
X. Dasaka-Nipāta
II. Nātha Vagga

#### The Book of the Gradual Sayings
X. The Book of the Tens
II: Things Making for Warding

#### Sutta 16

#### Āhuneyya Suttaṁ

# Worshipful

Translated from the Pali by F. L. Woodward, M.A.

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[23] [17]

[1][bodh] Thus have I heard:

The Exalted One addressed the monks,
saying:

"Monks."

"Yes, lord," replied those monks to the Exalted One.

The Exalted One said:

"Monks, these ten[1] persons are worthy of worship,
worthy of reverence,
worthy of gifts,
worthy of salutations with clasped hands,
a field of merit unsurpassed for the world.

What ten persons?

A Wayfarer, arahant, a fully enlightened one,
a Pacceka Buddha,
one released in both respects,
one released by insight,
one who has testified (to the truth) in his own person,[2]
one [18] who has won view,
one released by faith,
and one who is a son by adoption.[3]

These are the ten persons worthy of worship,
worthy of reverence,
worthy of gifts,
worthy of salutations with clasped hands,
a field of merit unsurpassed for the world."

[1] At G.S. ii, 250, the first four are reckoned worthy of a cairn. At A. iv, 10, seven of these are worshipful.

[2] Kāya-sakkhī; cf. G.S. i, 69, 102, 103 nn.; ii, 99.

[3] Gotrabhū, 'become one of the clan,' 'converted,' 'one of the elect.' Cf. A. iv, 373; defined at Pugg. 12, 13; V.M. 138; Compendium of Philosophy, 55, 215. Here Comy. has sikhā-patta (flame-, or crest-reached?) vipassanā-bhūto (insight-become) nibbānārammaṇe gotrabhū - ñānena samannāgato.

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