{"id":"an4.15","title":"Regarded as Foremost","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an4.15","title":"Regarded as Foremost","units":[{"id":"an4.15:0","sourceIds":["an4.15:0.1","an4.15:0.2","an4.15:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 4.15\n2. Caravagga\nPaññattisutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 4.15\n2. Walking\nRegarded as Foremost"}},{"id":"an4.15:1","sourceIds":["an4.15:1.1","an4.15:1.2","an4.15:1.3","an4.15:1.4","an4.15:1.5","an4.15:1.6","an4.15:1.7","an4.15:1.8","an4.15:1.9","an4.15:1.10"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Catasso imā, bhikkhave, aggapaññattiyo.\nKatamā catasso?\nEtadaggaṁ, bhikkhave, attabhāvīnaṁ yadidaṁ—\nrāhu asurindo.\nEtadaggaṁ, bhikkhave, kāmabhogīnaṁ yadidaṁ—\nrājā mandhātā.\nEtadaggaṁ, bhikkhave, ādhipateyyānaṁ yadidaṁ—\nmāro pāpimā.\nSadevake, bhikkhave, loke samārake sabrahmake sassamaṇabrāhmaṇiyā pajāya sadevamanussāya tathāgato aggamakkhāyati arahaṁ sammāsambuddho.\nImā kho, bhikkhave, catasso aggapaññattiyoti.","en":"“Mendicants, these four are regarded as foremost.\nWhat four?\nThe foremost in size of incarnation is\nRāhu, lord of titans.\nThe foremost pleasure seeker is\nKing Mandhātā.\nThe foremost in sovereignty is\nMāra the Wicked.\nIn this world—with its gods, Māras, and divinities, this population with its ascetics and brahmins, gods and humans—a Realized One, the perfected one, the fully awakened Buddha is said to be the best.\nThese are the four regarded as foremost."}},{"id":"an4.15:2","sourceIds":["an4.15:2.1","an4.15:2.2","an4.15:2.3","an4.15:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Rāhuggaṁ attabhāvīnaṁ,\nmandhātā kāmabhoginaṁ;\nMāro ādhipateyyānaṁ,\niddhiyā yasasā jalaṁ.","en":"Rāhu is foremost in size of incarnation,\nMandhātā in enjoying sensual pleasures,\nMāra in sovereignty,\nshining with power and glory."}},{"id":"an4.15:3","sourceIds":["an4.15:3.1","an4.15:3.2","an4.15:3.3","an4.15:3.4","an4.15:3.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Uddhaṁ tiriyaṁ apācīnaṁ,\nyāvatājagatogati;\nSadevakassa lokassa,\nbuddho aggo pavuccatī”ti.\nPañcamaṁ.","en":"Above, below, all round,\nas far as the planet extends;\nin all the world with its gods,\nthe Buddha is declared foremost.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an4.15/en/sujato","licence":"CC0 1.0","licenceUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","editionNote":"Full supplied source file; inherited abbreviations are preserved. Not a reconstructed expansion of every repetition. No Malay or Mandarin translation is implied."}