Yamakavagga

Collections of Numbered Discourses

Collections of 'numbered' or 'numerical' discourses and other related texts.

Paṭhamasaddhāsutta

AN 8.71
Inspiring All Around (1st)

Beginning with faith, a mendicant completes all good qualities that fulfill liberation.

Dutiyasaddhāsutta

AN 8.72
Inspiring All Around (2nd)

Beginning with faith, a mendicant completes all good qualities that fulfill liberation.

Paṭhamamaraṇassatisutta

AN 8.73
Mindfulness of Death (1st)

Various mendicants practice mindfulness of death, but do so inadequately. The Buddha explains how to do so with proper urgency,

Dutiyamaraṇassatisutta

AN 8.74
Mindfulness of Death (2nd)

A mendicant should reflect each night on the dangers that lie around them, and practice mindfulness of death with urgency to give up the unwholesome.

Paṭhamasampadāsutta

AN 8.75
Accomplishments (1st)

Eight accomplishments, both worldly and spiritual.

Dutiyasampadāsutta

AN 8.76
Accomplishments (2nd)

Eight accomplishments, both worldly and spiritual, in detail.

Icchāsutta

AN 8.77
Desires

Sāriputta describes eight cases where a mendicant has a desire for material things. Sometimes they fall under the sway of that desire, but sometimes they rise above it.

Alaṁsutta

AN 8.78
Good Enough

Eight sets of qualities pertain to benefiting oneself and others, explained by Sāriputta.

Parihānasutta

AN 8.79
Decline

Eight conditions for the decline or success of a trainee mendicant.

Kusītārambhavatthusutta

AN 8.80
Grounds for Laziness and Arousing Energy

Eight grounds for laziness, and the corresponding eight grounds for energy.