{"id":"an4.48","title":"With Visākha, Pañcāli’s Son","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an4.48","title":"With Visākha, Pañcāli’s Son","units":[{"id":"an4.48:0","sourceIds":["an4.48:0.1","an4.48:0.2","an4.48:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 4.48\n5. Rohitassavagga\nVisākhasutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 4.48\n5. With Rohitassa\nWith Visākha, Pañcāli’s Son"}},{"id":"an4.48:1","sourceIds":["an4.48:1.1","an4.48:1.2","an4.48:1.3","an4.48:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ekaṁ samayaṁ bhagavā sāvatthiyaṁ viharati jetavane anāthapiṇḍikassa ārāme.\nTena kho pana samayena āyasmā visākho pañcālaputto upaṭṭhānasālāyaṁ bhikkhū dhammiyā kathāya sandasseti samādapeti samuttejeti sampahaṁseti, poriyā vācāya vissaṭṭhāya anelagalāya atthassa viññāpaniyā pariyāpannāya anissitāya.\nAtha kho bhagavā sāyanhasamayaṁ paṭisallānā vuṭṭhito yena upaṭṭhānasālā tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā paññatte āsane nisīdi.\nNisajja kho bhagavā bhikkhū āmantesi:","en":"At one time the Buddha was staying near Sāvatthī in Jeta’s Grove, Anāthapiṇḍika’s monastery.\nNow at that time Venerable Visākha, Pañcāli’s son, was educating, encouraging, firing up, and inspiring the mendicants in the assembly hall with a Dhamma talk. His words were polished, clear, articulate, expressing the meaning, comprehensive, and independent.\nThen in the late afternoon, the Buddha came out of retreat and went to the assembly hall. He sat down on the seat spread out,\nand addressed the mendicants:"}},{"id":"an4.48:2","sourceIds":["an4.48:2.1","an4.48:2.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Ko nu kho, bhikkhave, upaṭṭhānasālāyaṁ bhikkhū dhammiyā kathāya sandasseti samādapeti samuttejeti sampahaṁseti poriyā vācāya vissaṭṭhāya anelagalāya atthassa viññāpaniyā pariyāpannāya anissitāyā”ti?\n“Āyasmā, bhante, visākho pañcālaputto upaṭṭhānasālāyaṁ bhikkhū dhammiyā kathāya sandasseti samādapeti samuttejeti sampahaṁseti poriyā vācāya vissaṭṭhāya anelagalāya atthassa viññāpaniyā pariyāpannāya anissitāyā”ti.","en":"“Mendicants, who was educating, encouraging, firing up, and inspiring the mendicants in the assembly hall with a Dhamma talk?”\n“Sir, it was Venerable Visākha, Pañcāli’s son.”"}},{"id":"an4.48:3","sourceIds":["an4.48:3.1","an4.48:3.2","an4.48:3.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atha kho bhagavā āyasmantaṁ visākhaṁ pañcālaputtaṁ etadavoca:\n“sādhu sādhu, visākha.\nSādhu kho tvaṁ, visākha, bhikkhū dhammiyā kathāya sandassesi samādapesi samuttejesi sampahaṁsesi poriyā vācāya vissaṭṭhāya anelagalāya atthassa viññāpaniyā pariyāpannāya anissitāyāti.","en":"Then the Buddha said to Visākha,\n“Good, good, Visākha!\nIt’s good that you educate, encourage, fire up, and inspire the mendicants in the assembly hall with a Dhamma talk, with words that are polished, clear, articulate, expressing the meaning, comprehensive, and independent."}},{"id":"an4.48:4","sourceIds":["an4.48:4.1","an4.48:4.2","an4.48:4.3","an4.48:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Nābhāsamānaṁ jānanti,\nmissaṁ bālehi paṇḍitaṁ;\nBhāsamānañca jānanti,\ndesentaṁ amataṁ padaṁ.","en":"Though an astute person is mixed up with fools,\nthey don’t know unless he speaks.\nBut when he speaks they know,\nhe’s teaching the state free of death."}},{"id":"an4.48:5","sourceIds":["an4.48:5.1","an4.48:5.2","an4.48:5.3","an4.48:5.4","an4.48:5.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Bhāsaye jotaye dhammaṁ,\npaggaṇhe isinaṁ dhajaṁ;\nSubhāsitadhajā isayo,\ndhammo hi isinaṁ dhajo”ti.\nAṭṭhamaṁ.","en":"He should speak and illustrate the teaching,\nholding up the banner of the seers.\nWords well spoken are the seers’ banner,\nfor the teaching is the banner of the seers.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an4.48/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."}