Aṅguttara Nikāya
Catukka Nipāta
15. Ābhā Vagga
The Book of the Fours
Chapter XV: Splendour
Sutta 149
Vacī Sucarita Suttaṃ
Right Practice
[144]
Thus have I heard:
On a certain occasion the Exalted One addressed the monks, saying:
"Monks."
"Yes, lord," they replied, and the Exalted One said:
"Monks, there are these four right practices.
What four?
Truthful speech,
speech not spiteful,
mild speech
and mantra speech."1
"These are the four right practices.
1 Mantā-bhāsā: cf. infra, § 221. Comy. mantā-sankhātāya paññāya paricchinditvā kathitakā. For similar expl. cf. SnA. 204, etc., and P.Dict. s.v.; Nidd. 497 (= pañña); SA. i, 273 (mantā-vacanaṃ = subhā-sitaṃ); D. ii, 246, mantāya bodhabbaṃ.