Samaṇasutta

Suttapiṭaka · Aṅguttaranikāya · Sattakanipāta · Aṭṭhakanipāta · Navakanipāta · Vol. 23 · Section 192

[192] "'Ascetic' (samaṇa), bhikkhus, is a designation (adhivacana) of the Tathāgata, the Arahant, the Fully Self-Enlightened One. 'Brahmin' (brāhmaṇa), bhikkhus, is a designation of the Tathāgata, the Arahant, the Fully Self-Enlightened One. 'Knowledge-master' (vedagū), bhikkhus, is a designation of the Tathāgata, the Arahant, the Fully Self-Enlightened One. 'Physician' (bhisakka), bhikkhus, is a designation of the Tathāgata, the Arahant, the Fully Self-Enlightened One. 'Stainless' (nimmala), bhikkhus, is a designation of the Tathāgata, the Arahant, the Fully Self-Enlightened One. 'Immaculate' (vimala), bhikkhus, is a designation of the Tathāgata, the Arahant, the Fully Self-Enlightened One. 'Possessor of knowledge (ñāṇa)' (ñāṇī), bhikkhus, is a designation of the Tathāgata, the Arahant, the Fully Self-Enlightened One. 'Liberated' (vimutta), bhikkhus, is a designation of the Tathāgata, the Arahant, the Fully Self-Enlightened One. What is to be done by an ascetic, by a brahmin who has lived the life fulfilled; what is to be attained by a knowledge-master, the unsurpassed [goal to be attained] by a physician; what is to be attained by the stainless one, by the immaculate one who has lived the life fulfilled; and what is to be attained by the possessor of knowledge, the unsurpassed [goal to be attained] by the liberated one — that I [have accomplished]: victorious in battle, myself released, I release others from bondage; I am a nāga, supremely tamed, one beyond training, attained to final Nibbāna.

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.