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Aṅguttara Nikāya · Discourses 10.267–746

Hate, Etc., Closing the Book of the Tens

Untitled in the source — Rāgapeyyāla — the twenty-third and final chapter of the Tens, closing the entire nipāta, closing the entire nipāta

Setting
None stated in the source
Speakers
The Buddha alone, addressing the mendicants
Form
Sixteen further defilements, each crossed against the same ten verbs and three ten-item lists already established for greed
Length
~2 minutes to read the compressed text; the full 480-discourse expansion would take many hours
Closing this project
This page closes Rāgapeyyāla, chapter 23, the Fifth Fifty, and the entire Book of the Tens at once, with a triple colophon — and with it, this entire 1,408-discourse Aṅguttara Nikāya completion project
Difficulty
★★★☆☆ — the compressed text is brief; understanding what it stands for requires holding a genuinely large multiplication in mind

Why this discourse

This single page stands for 480 discourses (AN 10.267–746), the sixteen further defilements — hate through negligence, the identical sixteen-item list already met at AN 9.113–432 — each crossed against the same ten verbs and three ten-item lists established for greed, closing this chapter, this nipāta, and this entire project.

Reading guide

The teaching in one sentence

Each of the sixteen remaining defilements — hate, delusion, anger, acrimony, disdain, contempt, jealousy, stinginess, deceitfulness, deviousness, obstinacy, aggression, conceit, arrogance, vanity, and negligence — should likewise be met with the same three ten-item lists, developed for insight, complete understanding, complete ending, giving up, ending, vanishing, fading away, cessation, giving away, and letting go of each defilement in turn.

The same sixteen-item list, met a second time in this project

Hate, delusion, anger, acrimony, disdain, contempt, jealousy, stinginess, deceitfulness, deviousness, obstinacy, aggression, conceit, arrogance, vanity, and negligence are the identical sixteen items, in the identical order, that closed AN 9.113–432 — the same defilement list, now recurring one nipāta later to close the Tens as it once closed the Nines.

The arithmetic, and this project's own final closure

16 defilements × 10 verbs × 3 ten-item lists = 480, plus the 30 discourses already given for greed itself (AN 10.237–266), totals exactly 510, matching the discourse range AN 10.237 through AN 10.746 — and with this page, all 211 AN10 discourses this project set out to translate are complete.

A triple colophon, closing three things at once

This page's own closing lines mark a triple closure: first ‘Rāgapeyyālaṁ niṭṭhitaṁ’ (“the peyyāla beginning with greed is finished”, left untranslated in the English), then ‘Pañcamo paṇṇāsako samatto’ (“the Fifth Fifty is finished”), and finally ‘Dasakanipātapāḷi niṭṭhitā’ (“the Book of the Tens is finished”) — closing not just this chapter but the entire nipāta, and with it, this project's complete translation of all 1,408 discourses across AN 1 through AN 11.

Key terms

dosassa, mohassa, kodhassa — “hate, delusion, anger” — the first three of the sixteen defilements opening this compressed range, the same standard list met once before at AN 9.113–432.
upanāhassa, makkhassa, paḷāsassa, issāya, macchariyassa — “acrimony, disdain, contempt, jealousy, stinginess” — five further defilements, matching the identical list and order already established at AN 3.183-352 and repeated at every nipāta-closing peyyāla since.
pamādassa — “of negligence” — the sixteenth and final defilement, given its own full nine-verb treatment before this page's own closing lines.
ime dasa dhammā bhāvetabbā — “these ten things should be developed” — the shared closing formula, repeated for each defilement crossed against each verb and each of the three ten-item lists.
Dasakanipātapāḷi niṭṭhitā — “the Book of the Tens is finished” — the source's own final declaration, closing this entire nipāta and, with it, this project's full translation of all 1,408 discourses across AN 1 through AN 11.

The text

The compressed text in full: sixteen defilements, crossed against ten verbs and the three ten-item lists, closing the Book of the Tens. Translation: Bhikkhu Sujato (CC0, SuttaCentral).

Sixteen defilements, ten verbs, compressed

§1“Of hate … delusion … anger … acrimony … disdain … contempt … jealousy … stinginess … deceitfulness … deviousness … obstinacy … aggression … conceit … arrogance … vanity … for the complete understanding of negligence … complete ending … giving up … ending … vanishing … fading away … cessation … giving away … letting go of negligence … these ten things should be developed.”

The Book of the Tens is finished

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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. 16 defilements × 10 verbs × 3 lists = 480, completing this chapter's full 510-discourse structure alongside greed's own 30.
Question 2 of 6
According to the guide, what is significant about the sixteen-item defilement list this page uses?
Correct: B. The same defilement list recurring to close the Tens as it once closed the Nines.
Question 3 of 6
What does this page's own closing colophon state, according to the guide?
Correct: B. Closing chapter, Fifty, and the entire nipāta all at once.
Question 4 of 6
What does this page mark the completion of for this entire project, according to the guide?
Correct: B. The final page of the entire Aṅguttara Nikāya completion project.
Question 5 of 6
What is the arithmetic behind this chapter's full 510-discourse span, according to the guide?
Correct: B. Confirmed against bilara-data before writing, matching the discourse range AN 10.237 through AN 10.746 exactly.
Question 6 of 6
Where is this compressed passage set?
Correct: D. No location is given for this compressed passage.
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Further reading

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