Aṅguttara Nikāya
IX. Navaka Nipāta
I. Sambodha Vagga

IX. The Book of the Nines

Chapter I: The Awakening

Sutta 9

Puggalā Suttaṃ

Persons

 

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Thus have I heard:

"Monks, these nine persons are found living in the world.

What nine?

The Arahant,
he who has attained to arahantship,
the Non-returner,
he who has attained to the realization of the fruit of the Non-returner,
the Once-returner,
he who has attained to the realization of the fruit of the Once-returner,
the Streammwinner,
he who has attained to the realization of the fruit of the Streamwinner
and the (average) many-man.¹

Monka, these nine persons are found living in the world.'

 

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¹ Cf. above, p. 193.