The Aṅguttara Nikāya (; , also translated "Gradual Collection" or "Numerical Discourses") is a Buddhist scriptures collection, the fourth of the five Nikāyas, or collections, in the Sutta Piṭaka, which is one of the "three baskets" that comprise the Pāli Tipiṭaka of Theravāda Buddhism. This nikāya consists of several thousand discourses ascribed to the Buddha and his chief disciples arranged in eleven "books", according to the number of Dhamma items referenced in them.
Overview Translator Bhikkhu Bodhi wrote: "In Aṅguttara Nikāya, persons are as a rule not reduced to mere collections of aggregates, elements, and sense-bases, but are treated as real centers of living experience engaged in a heartfelt quest for happiness and freedom from suffering."Bhikkhu Bodhi, trans. Saṃyutta Nikāya, "Introduction," pg. 34
Parallel The Aṅguttara Nikāya corresponds to the Ekottara Āgama ("Increased by One Discourses") found in the Sūtra Piṭakas of various Sanskritic early Buddhists schools, fragments of which survive in Sanskrit. A nearly complete version of the Saṃyukta Āgama survives in Chinese translation by the name Zēngyī Ahánjīng (增一阿含經); based on an Indic original of Mūlasarvāstivāda provenance.
Divisions The nipatas in this nikaya are: +NipātaVaggaEkakanipāto (The Book of Ones)1. Rūpādivaggo 2. Nīvaraṇappahānavaggo 3. Akammaniyavaggo 4. Adantavaggo 5. Paṇihitaacchavaggo 6. Accharāsaṅghātavaggo 7. Vīriyārambhādivaggo 8. Kalyāṇamittādivaggo 9. Pamādādivaggo 10. Dutiyapamādādivaggo 11. Adhammavaggo 12. Anāpattivaggo 13. Ekapuggalavaggo 14. Etadaggavaggo 15. Aṭṭhānapāḷi 16. Ekadhammapāḷi 17. Pasādakaradhammavaggo 18. Aparaaccharāsaṅghātavaggo 19. Kāyagatāsativaggo 20. AmatavaggoDukanipāto (The Book of Twos)1. Kammakaraṇavaggo 2. Adhikaraṇavaggo 3. Bālavaggo 4. Samacittavaggo 5. Parisavaggo (6) 1. Puggalavaggo (7) 2. Sukhavaggo (8) 3. Sanimittavaggo (9) 4. Dhammavaggo (10) 5. Bālavaggo (11) 1. Āsāduppajahavaggo (12) 2. Āyācanavaggo (13) 3. Dānavaggo (14) 4. Santhāravaggo (15) 5. Samāpattivaggo 1. Kodhapeyyālaṃ 2. Akusalapeyyālaṃ 3. Vinayapeyyālaṃ 4. RāgapeyyālaṃTikanipāto (The Book of Threes)1. Bālavaggo 2. Rathakāravaggo 3. Puggalavaggo 4. Devadūtavaggo 5. Cūḷavaggo (6) 1. Brāhmaṇavaggo (7) 2. Mahāvaggo (8) 3. Ānandavaggo (9) 4. Samaṇavaggo (10) 5. Loṇakapallavaggo (11) 1. Sambodhavaggo (12) 2. Āpāyikavaggo (13) 3. Kusināravaggo (14) 4. Yodhājīvavaggo (15) 5. Maṅgalavaggo (16) 6. Acelakavaggo (17) 7. Kammapathapeyyālaṃ (18) 8. RāgapeyyālaṃCatukkanipāto (The Book of Fours)1. Bhaṇḍagāmavaggo 2. Caravaggo 3. Uruvelavaggo 4. Cakkavaggo 5. Rohitassavaggo (6) 1. Puññābhisandavaggo (7) 2. Pattakammavaggo (8) 3. Apaṇṇakavaggo (9) 4. Macalavaggo (10) 5. Asuravaggo (11) 1. Valāhakavaggo (12) 2. Kesivaggo (13) 3. Bhayavaggo (14) 4. Puggalavaggo (15) 5. Ābhāvaggo (16) 1. Indriyavaggo (17) 2. Paṭipadāvaggo (18) 3. Sañcetaniyavaggo (19) 4. Brāhmaṇavaggo (20) 5. Mahāvaggo (21) 1. Sappurisavaggo (22) 2. Parisāvaggo (23) 3. Duccaritavaggo (24) 4. Kammavaggo (25) 5. Āpattibhayavaggo (26) 6. Abhiññāvaggo (27) 7. Kammapathavaggo (28) 8. RāgapeyyālaṃPañcakanipāto (The Book of Fives)1. Sekhabalavaggo 2. Balavaggo 3. Pañcaṅgikavaggo 4. Sumanavaggo 5. Muṇḍarājavaggo (6) 1. Nīvaraṇavaggo (7) 2. Saññāvaggo (8) 3. Yodhājīvavaggo (9) 4. Theravaggo (10) 5. Kakudhavaggo (11) 1. Phāsuvihāravaggo (12) 2. Andhakavindavaggo (13) 3. Gilānavaggo (14) 4. Rājavaggo (15) 5. Tikaṇḍakīvaggo (16) 1. Saddhammavaggo (17) 2. Āghātavaggo (18) 3. Upāsakavaggo (19) 4. Araññavaggo (20) 5. Brāhmaṇavaggo (21) 1. Kimilavaggo (22) 2. Akkosakavaggo (23) 3. Dīghacārikavaggo (24) 4. Āvāsikavaggo (25) 5. Duccaritavaggo (26) 6. Upasampadāvaggo 1. Sammutipeyyālaṃ 2. Sikkhāpadapeyyālaṃ 3. RāgapeyyālaṃChakkanipāto (The Book of Sixes)1. Āhuneyyavaggo 2. Sāraṇīyavaggo 3. Anuttariyavaggo 4. Devatāvaggo 5. Dhammikavaggo 6. Mahāvaggo 7. Devatāvaggo 8. Arahattavaggo 9. Sītivaggo 10. Ānisaṃsavaggo 11. Tikavaggo 12. Sāmaññavaggo 13. RāgapeyyālaṃSattakanipāto (The Book of Sevens)1. Dhanavaggo 2. Anusayavaggo 3. Vajjisattakavaggo 4. Devatāvaggo 5. Mahāyaññavaggo 6. Abyākatavaggo 7. Mahāvaggo 8. Vinayavaggo 9. Samaṇavaggo 10. Āhuneyyavaggo 11. RāgapeyyālaṃAṭṭhakanipāto (The Book of Eights)1. Mettāvaggo 2. Mahāvaggo 3. Gahapativaggo 4. Dānavaggo 5. Uposathavaggo (6) 1. Gotamīvaggo (7) 2. Bhūmicālavaggo (8) 3. Yamakavaggo (9) 4. Sativaggo (10) 5. Sāmaññavaggo (11). RāgapeyyālaṃNavakanipāto (The Book of Nines)1. Sambodhivaggo 2. Sīhanādavaggo 3. Sattāvāsavaggo 4. Mahāvaggo 5. Sāmaññavaggo (6) 1. Khemavaggo (7) 2. Satipaṭṭhānavaggo (8) 3. Sammappadhānavaggo (9) 4. Iddhipādavaggo (10) 5. RāgapeyyālaṃDasakanipāto (The Book of Tens)1. Ānisaṃsavaggo 2. Nāthavaggo 3. Mahāvaggo 4. Upālivaggo 5. Akkosavaggo (6) 1. Sacittavaggo (7) 2. Yamakavaggo (8) 3. Ākaṅkhavaggo (9) 4. Theravaggo (10) 5. Upālivaggo (11) 1. Samaṇasaññāvaggo (12) 2. Paccorohaṇivaggo (13) 3. Parisuddhavaggo (14) 4. Sādhuvaggo (15) 5. Ariyavaggo (16) 1. Puggalavaggo (17) 2. Jāṇussoṇivaggo (18) 3. Sādhuvaggo (19) 4. Ariyamaggavaggo (20) 5. Aparapuggalavaggo (21) 1. Karajakāyavaggo (22) 2. Sāmaññavaggo 23. RāgapeyyālaṃEkādasako nipāto (The Book of Elevens)1. Nissayavaggo 2. Anussativaggo 3. Sāmaññavaggo 4. Rāgapeyyālaṃ
Translations
Full translation
The Book of the Gradual Sayings, tr F. L. Woodward & E. M. Hare, 1932–6, 5 volumes, Pali Text Society, Bristol Numerical Discourses of the Buddha, tr Bhikkhu Bodhi, 2012, 1 volume, Wisdom Publications , Somerville, MA Bhikkhu Sujato (trans.), The “Numbered” or “Numerical” Discourses, 2018, published online at SuttaCentral and released into the public domain.
Selections
1st 3 nipatas tr E. R. J. Gooneratne, Ceylon, c1913 4th nipata tr A. D. Jayasundare, London, 1925 anthology ed & tr Nyanaponika, Buddhist Publication Society, Kandy, Sri Lanka; revised, with additions & deletions, by Bodhi, as Numerical Discourses of the Buddha, Altamira Press, Oxford/New York/Lanham, Maryland/Walnut Creek, California, 1999
See also Early Buddhist Texts Dīgha Nikāya Khuddaka Nikāya Majjhima Nikāya Pāli Cannon Saṃyutta Nikāya Sutta Piṭaka Dīghajāṇu Sutta
References
External links
Anguttara Nikaya in Pali, English and Sinhala (metta.lk) English Translations of the Anguttara Nikaya (accesstoinsight.org) English translations by Bhikkhu Bodhi of selected Suttas from the Anguttara Nikaya at Wisdom Publications