Manorathapurani: The Wish Fulfiller

The Commentary to the Anguttara Nikaya is called Manorathapurani, or "The Wish Fulfiller" in Pali. It was compiled in 500 AD by Ven. Buddhaghosa based on a much older commentarial tradition. This Collection of Discourses, Anguttara Nikaya, containing 9557 short suttas is divided into eleven divisions known as nipatas. Each nipata is divided again into groups called vaggas which usually contain ten suttas. The discourses are arranged in progressive numerical order, each nipata containing suttas with items of dhamma, beginning with one item and moving up by units of one till there are eleven items of dhamma in each sutta of the last nipata. This one-volume complete edition of the Anguttara Nikaya commentary constitutes an important source book on Buddhist psychology and ethics providing essential features concerning the theory and practice of the Dhamma as understood by the commentarial Pali tradition.