Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c7.384

v1.c7.384

We are told that Ānanda had learnt eighty-two thousand dhammā (topics) from the Buddha himself and two thousand from his colleagues.⁹⁰ He had also a reputation for fast talking; where an ordinary man could speak one word Ānanda could speak eight; the Buddha could speak sixteen words for each one word of Ānanda.⁹¹ Ānanda could remember anything he had once heard up to fifteen thousand stanzas of sixty thousand lines.⁹²