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5.191 Ancient traditions of the brahmins that are these days only seen among dogs.
5.192 The brahmin Doṇa accuses the Buddha of not respecting brahmins, so the Buddha responds by analyzing the different kinds of brahmin.
5.193 Saṅgārava the brahmin asks why memorized hymns are sometimes clear to the mind and sometimes not. The Buddha answers with the five hindrances.
5.194 The brahmins Kāraṇapālī and Piṅgiyānī extol the good qualities of the Buddha.
5.195 During a visit by the Licchavis, the brahmin Piṅgiyānī utters a verse in praise of the Buddha.
5.196 Before his awakening, the bodhisatta had five great dreams that foretold profound aspects of his awakening and dispensation.
5.197 Weather forecasters remain ignorant of these five obstacles to rain.
5.198 Five factors of good speech.
5.199 When a renunciate visits a family, they make merit on five bases.
5.200 Five kinds of escape, showing how different aspects of suffering are escaped by different practices.

5.181 Different reasons why someone might dwell in the wilderness.
5.182 Different reasons why someone might wear rag robes.
5.183 Different reasons why someone might dwell at the root of a tree.
5.184 Different reasons why someone might dwell in a charnel ground.
5.185 Different reasons why someone might dwell in the open air.
5.186 Different reasons why someone might never lie down.
5.187 Different reasons why someone might sleep wherever a mat is laid down.
5.188 Different reasons why someone might eat once per day.
5.189 Different reasons why someone might refuse food offered late.
5.190 Different reasons why someone might eat only from their bowl.

5.171 Confidence or lack thereof in layfolk is due to their precepts.
5.172 Confidence or lack thereof in layfolk is due to their precepts.
5.173 Reasons one is cast down to hell or raised to heaven.
5.174 Breaking of precepts is a threat and a danger.
5.175 An outcaste is not born, but they make themselves an outcaste by their behavior.
5.176 The Buddha encourages Anāthapiṇḍika to not rest short with generosity, but to practice meditation too.
5.177 Five kinds of trade that are wrong livelihood.
5.178 Kings do not punish people for keeping precepts.
5.179 Qualities possessing which a lay person may claim to be a stream-enterer.
5.180 The Buddha tells of the layman Gavesī in the time of Buddha Kassapa, and how he went forth with all his followers.

5.161 Five reflections to help eliminate resentment, in brief.
5.162 Five reflections to help eliminate resentment, an explanation by Sāriputta..
5.163 Qualifications for a mendicant to hold a Dhamma discussion.
5.164 Qualifications for a mendicant to share their way of life.
5.165 Sāriputta explains five reasons for asking a question, and the reason he asks a question.
5.166 Udāyī refuses to believe Sāriputta’s description of the achievements of an accomplished meditator. The Buddha dismisses Udāyī’s foolishness, and outlines the reasons senior mendicants should be respected.
5.167 Factors that a mendicant should establish in themselves before accusing another.
5.168 Lack of ethics prevents the attaining of samādhi, wisdom, and freedom.
5.169 Ānanda asks Sāriputta to explain what it means to be quick-witted, but Sāriputta gets Ānanda to explain it himself.
5.170 Ānanda asks Bhaddaji about the best sense objects, and corrects his answer.

5.151 -153Qualities that prevent one who is listening to the teaching from understanding.
5.154 - 156 Things that lead to the decline or the prosperity of the Dhamma.
5.157 Certain topics are inappropriate to discuss with certain kinds of people.
5.158 Confidence or lack thereof in mendicants is due to their practice.
5.159 When told Venerable Udāyī is teaching, the Buddha defines five factors that a Dhamma teacher should establish in themselves.
5.160 Five things that are hard to dispel once they have arisen

5.141 Five people susceptible to various flaws.
5.142 Those who violate moral precepts may regret it or may not.
5.143 The Licchavis discuss the greatest treasures in the world. The Buddha, criticizing them for their fixation on sensual pleasures, suggests spiritual treasures.
5.144 Five meditations that train a mendicant to shift their perception at will.
5.145 Reasons one is cast down to hell or raised to heaven.
5.146 Don’t befriend a mendicant with five qualities; look instead for the five opposites.
5.147 Good and bad ways of offering gifts.
5.148 The way a good person gives gifts and the outcome.
5.149 A mendicant who has found only temporary freedom may decline for five reasons.
5.150 A mendicant who has found only temporary freedom may decline for five reasons.

5.131 Five qualities by which a wheel-turning monarch rules justly, and five corresponding qualities by which the Buddha rolls the Wheel of Dhamma.
5.132 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.
5.133 Even a wheel-turning monarch has a king, as does the Buddha.
5.134 A wheel-turning monarch always lives in his own realm, and so does a mendicant whose mind is freed.
5.135 A wheel-turning monarch’s son aspires to kingship, as a mendicant aspires to awakening.
5.136 A wheel-turning monarch’s son aspires to be a viceroy, as a mendicant aspires to awakening.
5.137 Five people who sleep little.
5.138 Even a clumsy royal elephant is considered to be a royal elephant, and so too even a clumsy mendicant is still a mendicant.
5.139 A royal elephant who can’t endure sense impacts is unfit, and so too a mendicant.
5.140 A royal elephant with five factors is fit, and so too a mendicant.

5.121 Five meditations recommended for sick mendicants.
5.122 Five meditations that lead to perfection or non-return.
5.123 Five qualities that make a patient hard to nurse.
5.124 Five requirements that a carer or nurse should meet before looking after a patient.
5.125 Things that assist or impede longevity.
5.126 Things that assist or impede longevity.
5.127 Five factors that show whether a mendicant is ready to live apart from the Sangha.
5.128 Things that make an ascetic happy or unhappy.
5.129 Five deeds that condemn the perpetrator to hell.
5.130 Worldly or moral losses and their consequences.

5.111 Five qualities that endear a mendicant who visits families.
5.112 Five factors to be observed by a companion who follows on alms-round; this would typically be a novice or junior mendicant.
5.113 To enter samādhi, a mendicant must be able to endure sense impacts.
5.114 Five qualities to instill in recently ordained mendicants.
5.115 Five good and five bad qualities that determine a nun’s destiny after death.
5.116 Five good and five bad qualities that determine a nun’s destiny after death.
5.117 Five good and five bad qualities that determine a nun’s destiny after death.
5.118 Five good and five bad qualities that determine a nun’s destiny after death.
5.119 Five good and five bad qualities that determine a nun’s destiny after death.
5.120 Five good and five bad qualities that determine a nun’s destiny after death.

5.101 Five factors in which a trainee is assured.
5.102 Five reasons why even a good mendicant might be suspected of bad behavior.
5.103 Five tricks used by thieves to hide, and similar tricks used by bad mendicants.
5.104 Five qualities of the most refined type of ascetic.
5.105 Five ways in which a mendicant can live comfortably with their spiritual companions.
5.106 The Buddha explains to Ānanda five ways in which a mendicant can live comfortably with their spiritual companions.
5.107 Five factors of a worthy mendicant.
5.108 Five factors of a worthy mendicant.
5.109 Five factors by which a mendicant covers all the directions.
5.110 Five factors that show whether a mendicant is ready to live in the wilderness.