Aṅguttara Nikāya 4.140

Numbered Discourses 4.140

14. Puggalavagga

14. Persons

Vādīsutta

Speaker

“Cattārome, bhikkhave, vādī. Katame cattāro?

“Bhikkhus, there are these four speakers. What four?

Atthi, bhikkhave, vādī atthato pariyādānaṁ gacchati, no byañjanato;

There’s a speaker who runs out of meaningful things to say, but not of ways of phrasing things.

atthi, bhikkhave, vādī byañjanato pariyādānaṁ gacchati, no atthato;

There’s a speaker who runs out of ways of phrasing things, but not of meaningful things to say.

atthi, bhikkhave, vādī atthato ca byañjanato ca pariyādānaṁ gacchati;

There’s a speaker who runs out of both meaningful things to say, and ways of phrasing things.

atthi, bhikkhave, vādī nevatthato no byañjanato pariyādānaṁ gacchati.

There’s a speaker who never runs out of meaningful things to say, or ways of phrasing things.

Ime kho, bhikkhave, cattāro vādī. Aṭṭhānametaṁ, bhikkhave, anavakāso yaṁ catūhi paṭisambhidāhi samannāgato¹ atthato vā byañjanato vā pariyādānaṁ gaccheyyā”ti.

These are the four speakers. It is impossible, it cannot happen that someone accomplished in the four kinds of textual analysis will ever run out of meaningful things to say, or ways of phrasing things.”

Dasamaṁ.

Puggalavaggo catuttho.

Tassuddānaṁ

Saṁyojanaṁ paṭibhāno, ugghaṭitaññu uṭṭhānaṁ; Sāvajjo dve ca sīlāni, nikaṭṭha dhamma vādī cāti.