'the ten powers (of a Perfect One); or, he who Possesses the 10 P.', i.e. the Buddha.

About him it is said (e.g., M.12.; A.X.21):

There, o monks, the Perfect One understands according to reality the possible as possible, and the impossible as impossible ...

• the result of past, present and future actions ...

• the path leading to the welfare of all ...

• the world with its many different elements ...

• the different inclinations in beings ...

• the lower and higher faculties in beings ...

• the defilement, purity and rising with regard to the absorptions, deliverances, concentration and attainments ...

• remembering many former rebirths ...

• perceiving with the divine eye how beings vanish and reappear again according to their actions (karma) ...

• gaining, through extinction of all taints, possession of 'deliverance of mind' and 'deliverance through wisdom' ...."