Untitled in the source — Puggalavagga — the sixteenth chapter of the Tens, opening the Fourth Fifty
Setting
None stated in the source
Speakers
The Buddha alone, addressing the mendicants
Form
Ten association-verbs (frequent, pay homage, venerate, praise, respect, revere, success, purity, winning over conceit, growth in wisdom) crossed against a person with the ten wrong/right factors, closing with an eleventh discourse on wickedness and merit
Length
~1 minute to read the compressed text; the full eleven-discourse expansion would take about ten
A small, tractable peyyāla
Eleven discourses compressed into one page — a modest scale compared to AN 9.113–432's 320, and nothing like the still-pending AN 10.237–746 closing this entire nipāta
Difficulty
★★☆☆☆ — the compressed text is brief, but tracking ten distinct verb-pairs takes care
Why this discourse
This single page stands for eleven separate discourses (AN 10.156 through 10.166), each crossing one of ten association-verbs against the same ten wrong and ten right factors already used to describe a person at AN 10.155, closing with an eleventh discourse on wickedness and merit that also ends this chapter.
Reading guide
The teaching in one sentence
A person with the ten wrong factors should not be frequented, paid homage, venerated, praised, respected, or revered, is not a success, is not pure, does not win over conceit, does not grow in wisdom, and brims with much wickedness; a person with the ten right factors should receive the opposite treatment and outcome in each case, and brims with much merit.
Ten verbs, checked against the root before writing
The root text (an10.156-166_root-pli-ms.json) confirms ten distinct verb-pairs compressed with peyyāla ellipses: bhajitabbo (frequented), payirupāsitabbo (paid homage), pujjo hoti (venerated), pāsaṁso hoti (praised), agāravo/sagāravo hoti (respected), appatisso/sappatisso hoti (revered), ārādhako hoti (a success), visujjhati (pure), mānaṁ adhibhoti (wins over conceit), and paññāya vaḍḍhati (grows in wisdom) — matching AN 10.156 through AN 10.165 exactly, ten discourses for ten verbs.
An eleventh discourse closes the set and the chapter
The final segment of the compressed file (an10.156-166:2.1–2.5) is a distinct eleventh discourse, AN 10.166: a person with the ten wrong factors “brims with much wickedness,” one with the ten right factors “brims with much merit” — this final discourse also carries the chapter's own untranslated colophon, ‘Puggalavaggo paṭhamo’ (the Individuals Chapter, the first), confirming that the Fourth Fifty restarts its own internal chapter numbering, exactly as the Second and Third Fifty did before it.
A modest peyyāla, not this book's largest
At eleven discourses compressed into one page, this peyyāla is a fraction of the scale already met at AN 9.113–432 (320 discourses) and far smaller than the still-pending AN 10.237–746 Rāgapeyyāla (510 discourses) that will close this entire nipāta — a useful reminder that not every compressed range in this collection is enormous, and that each one's actual structure must be checked individually against bilara-data rather than assumed from its scale or position.
Key terms
bhajitabbo, payirupāsitabbo — “should be frequented, should be paid homage” — the first two of ten association-verbs opening this compressed peyyāla.
pujjo hoti, pāsaṁso hoti — “is venerated, is praised” — the third and fourth verb-pairs in the same sequence.
ārādhako hoti, visujjhati — “is a success, is purified” — two further verb-pairs, shifting from social treatment to personal outcome.
mānaṁ adhibhoti, paññāya vaḍḍhati — “wins over conceit, grows in wisdom” — the ninth and tenth verb-pairs, closing the ten-verb sequence before the eleventh, colophon-bearing discourse.
Puggalavaggo paṭhamo — “the Individuals Chapter, the first” — this chapter's own closing colophon, confirming the Fourth Fifty restarts its internal chapter numbering.
The text
The compressed text in full: ten association-verbs and an eleventh discourse on wickedness and merit, each applied to a person with the ten wrong and ten right factors. Translation: Bhikkhu Sujato (CC0, SuttaCentral).
Ten verbs, compressed
§1“Mendicants, you should not frequent an individual who has ten qualities. … you should frequent … you should not pay homage … you should pay homage … you should not venerate … you should venerate … you should not praise … you should praise … you should not respect … you should respect … you should not revere … you should revere … is not a success … is a success … is not pure … is pure … does not win over conceit … wins over conceit … does not grow in wisdom … grows in wisdom …
Wickedness, and merit
§2brims with much wickedness … brims with much merit. What ten? Right view, right purpose, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right immersion, right knowledge, and right freedom. An individual who has these ten qualities creates much merit.”
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Self-check quiz
6 questions. Click an answer to see immediate feedback. No score is recorded — this is for your own checking.
Question 1 of 6
What does this compressed page stand for?
Correct: B. Ten verb-pairs (AN 10.156–165) plus one closing discourse (AN 10.166), compressed into a single peyyāla page.
Question 2 of 6
According to the guide, what ten verbs are crossed against the ten-factor person?
Correct: B. Confirmed against the root text before writing, matching AN 10.156 through AN 10.165 exactly.
Question 3 of 6
What does the eleventh discourse in this compressed set (AN 10.166) add, according to the guide?
Correct: B. The colophon "Puggalavaggo paṭhamo" confirms the Fourth Fifty restarts its internal chapter count, as the Second and Third Fifty did.
Question 4 of 6
How does this peyyāla's scale compare to AN 9.113–432, according to the guide?
Correct: B. A modest, tractable peyyāla, distinct from this project's largest compressed ranges.
Question 5 of 6
What still-pending peyyāla does the guide note as far larger than this one?
Correct: B. A reminder to check each compressed range's actual structure individually rather than assume its scale.
Question 6 of 6
Where is this compressed passage set?
Correct: D. No location is given for this compressed passage.
