➥ pattipatta:

• for pattipatta:
  • attained the [supreme] attainment
• for paramapattipatta:
  • attained the supreme attainment
• for uttamapattipatta:
  • attained the unexcelled attainment

Pattipatta and uttamapattipatta

Pattipatta is found only in verse and implies arahantship. It is an abbreviation of either:

1) uttamapattipatta, ‘attained the unexcelled attainment,’ which occurs only in the Samaṇamaṇḍikā Sutta (MN ii 23-29), or,

2) paramapattipatta, ‘attained the supreme attainment,’ which occurs only in the Saṁyutta Nikāya.

Paramapattipatta: orthodox

Paramapattipatta is likely more orthodox than uttamapattipatta. Uttamapattipatta is apparently used in the Samaṇamaṇḍikā Sutta to avoid a repetition of parama in this word sequence:

• sampannakusalaṁ paramakusalaṁ uttamapattipattaṁ

Therefore, we regard pattipatta as an abbreviation of paramapattipatta (‘attained the supreme attainment’).

Likewise, Norman treats pattipatta as an abbreviation: ‘gained the [highest] gain’ (e.g. Snp 536-7).

➥ uttamapattipattaṁ: (main article see: pattipatta)

Illustration: uttamapattipattaṁ, attained the unexcelled attainment

An individual endowed with which ten qualities is one whom I describe as being perfect in what is spiritually wholesome, of the highest spiritual proficiency, an invincible ascetic who has attained the unexcelled attainment?

Katamehi cāhaṁ thapati dasahi dhammehi samannāgataṁ purisapuggalaṁ paññāpemi sampannakusalaṁ paramakusalaṁ uttamapattipattaṁ samaṇaṁ ayojjhaṁ

In this regard a bhikkhu is possessed of the right perception [of reality] of a finished disciple… the right liberation [from perceptually obscuring states] of a finished disciple.

idha thapati bhikkhu asekhāya sammādiṭṭhiyā samannāgato hoti… asekhāya sammāvimuttiyā samannāgato hoti. (MN ii 29)

➥ paramapattipatto: (main article see: pattipatta)

Illustration: paramapattipatto, attained the supreme attainment

The Perfect One, the unexcelled person, the supreme person, one who has attained the supreme attainment.

tathāgato uttamapuriso paramapuriso paramapattipatto. (SN iii 118)

➥ pattipattan: (main article see: pattipatta)

Illustration: pattipattan, attained the [supreme] attainment

Who has ended deceit, conceit, greed, anger, and immaterial-factors-and-bodily-form, they call him one who has fulfilled the ideals of religious asceticism, one who has attained the [supreme] attainment.

Māyaṁ mānamathopi lobhakodhaṁ
Pariyantamakāsi nāmarūpaṁ taṁ paribbājakamāhu pattipattan ti. (Snp 537)

➥ pattipattā: (main article see: pattipatta)

Illustration: pattipattā, attained the [supreme] attainment

They have attained the [supreme] attainment.

Te pattipattā. (Snp 228)

➥ pattipatto: (main article see: pattipatta)

Illustration: pattipatto, attained the [supreme] attainment

Whoever in this world amongst those living the religious life has attained the [supreme] attainment, who is well behaved always, who understands the teaching.

Yo idha caraṇesu pattipatto kusalo sabbadā ājānāti dhammaṁ. (Snp 536)