Academic | Sutta Name | Notes | PSA Plae | Vagga | Nikaya | PTS | Keywords |
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AN.IV.257 | Dutiya Aajaaniiya Sutta | Compares the qualities of a thoroughbred steed with the qualities of a monk. Just as a thoroughbred steed is possessed of: 1. beauty [va.n.na], a monk is possessed of self-discipline [siila]; 2. strength, a monk is possessed of striving in wholesome deeds; 3. speed, a monk is possessed of destruction of the defilements and can attain absorptions [jhaana] 1-4, and; 4. good proportions, a monk is possessed of the Four Requisites. | 35/626 | Catukanipaata Unallocated Pa.n.naasaka | A"nguttara | A.ii. |