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AN 4.140PTS AN 2.1381 min read

Speaker

Vādīsutta

Having things to say, and saying them well.

Translated by Bhikkhu Sujato · Pāli: Mahāsaṅgīti Tipiṭaka · Public domain (CC0) via SuttaCentral

  • 0.1Aṅguttara Nikāya 4.140Numbered Discourses 4.140
  • 0.214. Puggalavagga14. Individuals

0.3VādīsuttaSpeaker

1.1PTS 2.139“Cattārome, bhikkhave, vādī.“Mendicants, there are these four speakers.1.2Katame cattāro?What four?

  1. 1.3Atthi, bhikkhave, vādī atthato pariyādānaṁ gacchati, no byañjanato;There’s a speaker who runs out of meaningful things to say, but not of ways of phrasing things.
  2. 1.4atthi, bhikkhave, vādī byañjanato pariyādānaṁ gacchati, no atthato;There’s a speaker who runs out of ways of phrasing things, but not of meaningful things to say.
  3. 1.5atthi, bhikkhave, vādī atthato ca byañjanato ca pariyādānaṁ gacchati;There’s a speaker who runs out of both meaningful things to say, and ways of phrasing things.
  4. 1.6atthi, bhikkhave, vādī nevatthato no byañjanato pariyādānaṁ gacchati.There’s a speaker who never runs out of meaningful things to say, or ways of phrasing things.

1.7Ime kho, bhikkhave, cattāro vādī.These are the four speakers.1.8Aṭṭhānametaṁ, bhikkhave, anavakāso yaṁ catūhi paṭisambhidāhi samannāgato atthato vā byañjanato vā pariyādānaṁ gaccheyyā”ti.It is impossible, it cannot happen that someone accomplished in the four kinds of textual analysis will ever run out of meaningful things to say, or ways of phrasing things.”

1.9Dasamaṁ.

1.10Puggalavaggo catuttho.

2.0Tassuddānaṁ

2.1Saṁyojanaṁ paṭibhāno,2.2ugghaṭitaññu uṭṭhānaṁ;2.3Sāvajjo dve ca sīlāni,2.4nikaṭṭha dhamma vādī cāti.