[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Dictionary of Pali Proper Names](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937) › v1.c7.384 # Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c7.384 Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v1.c7.384 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c7.384](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.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 - [Previous: v1.c7.383](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c7.383) - [Next: v1.c7.385](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c7.385) - [Up: v1.c7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c7) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c7.384](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c7.384) · Pramāṇa