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The Book of the Eights

85(5)Designations

Author: Bhikkhu Bodhi @ IAPT

85(5)Designations

"Bhikkhus,(1)'Ascetic'is a designation for the Tathagata,the Arahant,the Perfectly Enlightened One.
(2)'Brahmin'is a designation for the Tathāgata,the Arahant,the Perfectly Enlightened One.
(3)'Healer'...
(4)'Master of knowledge' I follow Ce here.Be and Ee put vedaguū before bhisakko....
(5)'One unstained'...
(6)'Stainless one'...
(7)'Knower'...
(8)Liberated one' is a designation for the Tathagata,the Arahant,the Perfectly Enlightened One."
That highest state to be attained by an ascetic,The verse as preserved seems incomplete because the relative clauses beginning with yam are not explicitly completed by a demonstrative clause.I thus follow Vanarata's suggestion that an implicit demonstrative corresponding to anuttaran pattabbani should be read into the concluding verse.It seems that vijitasangamo refers precisely to this,and I have thus added "overthat"in brackets.by a brahmin who has lived the spiritual life,
to be attained by a master of knowledge and a healer—
that highest state to be attained by one unstained,by a stainless one who is purified,
to be attained by a knower,by one liberated—
[over that]I am triumphant in battle;freed,I free others from bondage.
I am a naga,supremely tamed, Ce paramo danto;Be paramadanto;Ee paramam danto.The gloss in Mp,paramadamathena dantatta paramadanto nama,suggests that parama qualifies danto,not nago as in Ce.one beyond training,attained to nibbāna.