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Mahā-purisa-vitakka Sutta
The books say (E.g., DhA.i.117) that Anuruddha became an
arahant after listening to this sutta. There is no sutta of this name, but the
reference is evidently to the Anuruddha Sutta (A.iv.227ff), which the
Buddha preached to Anuruddha who was then dwelling among the Cetis in
Pācīnavamsamigadāya.
Anuruddha was meditating on the seven purisa-vitakkā, and
the Buddha appeared before him and taught him the eighth
- that the Dhamma is for the
precise and for one who delights in exactness, not for the diffuse or for him
who delights in diffuseness. The Buddha later addresses the monks of
Sumsumāragiri and tells them of the eight mahā-purisa-vitakkā.

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