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Collections of 'numbered' or 'numerical' discourses and other related texts.
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Five qualities by which a wheel-turning monarch rules justly, and five corresponding qualities by which the Buddha rolls the Wheel of Dhamma.
Five qualities by which a wheel-turning monarch’s son rules justly, and five corresponding qualities by which Sāriputta keeps rolling the Wheel of Dhamma.
Even a wheel-turning monarch has a king, as does the Buddha.
A wheel-turning monarch always lives in his own realm, and so does a mendicant whose mind is freed.
A wheel-turning monarch’s son aspires to kingship, as a mendicant aspires to awakening.
A wheel-turning monarch’s son aspires to be a viceroy, as a mendicant aspires to awakening.
Five people who sleep little.
Even a clumsy royal elephant is considered to be a royal elephant, and so too even a clumsy mendicant is still a mendicant.
A royal elephant who can’t endure sense impacts is unfit, and so too a mendicant.
A royal elephant with five factors is fit, and so too a mendicant.