Anguttara

The Anguttara, which is a still longer collection, is arranged in numerical groups, a method of classification dear to the Hindus who delight in such computations as the four meditations, the eightfold path, the ten fetters.

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The different accounts of these visions vary so much as to cast great doubts on their accuracy; and the oldest one of all (_Anguttara_, i. 145) speaks of ideas only, not of actual visions.

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And in the Anguttara we find set out in order first of all the units, then all the pairs, then all the trios, and so on.

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The lengthy legend, or chain of legends, associating the past lives of this famous Therī with the lotus-flower is fully translated from the Anguttara Commentary in Mrs. Bode's Women Leaders, etc.,

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Ps.xxxvii. – and signifying 'versed in the three Vedas,' was, according to Anguttara-Nikāya, i. 163-5, adopted by the Buddha and applied to the three attainments of paññā, entitled reminiscence of former births, the Heavenly Eye, and the destruction of the Asavas.

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Nikâyas the Saṃyutta and Anguttara are the more modern and the Anguttara mentions Munda, King of Magadha who began to reign about forty years after the Buddha's death.

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Bhâbrû Edict contains the saying: _Thus the good law shall long endure_, which is believed to be a quotation and certainly corresponds pretty closely with a passage in the Anguttara-Nikâya [643].

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A remarkable passage is preserved in the Anguttara

Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 Charles Eliot 1896

Both the Anguttara and Saṃyutta quote the last two cantos of the

Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 Charles Eliot 1896

Already in the Anguttara-Nikâya [626], we hear of tables of contents and the expression is important, for though we cannot give any more precise explanation of it, it shows that care was taken to check the contents of the works accepted as scripture.

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