an.4.172 Aṅguttara Nikāya (Numbered Discourses)

Sāriputta’s Attainment of Textual Analysis

There Sāriputta addressed the mendicants:
“Reverends, mendicants!”
“Reverend,” they replied.
Sāriputta said this:
“Reverends, I realized the textual analysis of the meaning—piece by piece and expression by expression—a fortnight after I ordained.
In many ways I explain, teach, assert, establish, clarify, analyze, and reveal it.
Whoever has any doubt or uncertainty, let them ask me,
I will answer. Our teacher is present, he who is so very skilled in our teachings.
I realized the textual analysis of the text—piece by piece and expression by expression—a fortnight after I ordained. …



I realized the textual analysis of terminology—piece by piece and expression by expression—a fortnight after I ordained. …



I realized the textual analysis of eloquence—piece by piece and expression by expression—a fortnight after I ordained.
In many ways I explain, teach, assert, establish, clarify, analyze, and reveal it.
If anyone has any doubt or uncertainty, let them ask me,
I will answer. Our teacher is present, he who is so very skilled in our teachings.”