Aṇguttara-Nikāya
Pañcaka-Nipāta
IV. Sumanā Vagga
The Book of the Gradual Sayings
The Book of the Fives
IV: Sumanā
Sutta 35
Dānā-Nisaṃsa Suttaṃ
The Advantages from Gifts
Translated by E. M. Hare
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[1][olds][bodh] Thus have I heard:
Once the Exalted One addressed the monks, saying:
"Monks."
'Yes, lord,' they replied; and the Exalted One said:
"Monks, there are these five advantages from gifts.
What five?
He is good and dear to many folk;
good and wise men love him;
a good report is spread abroad about him;
he strays not from the householder's Dhamma;[1] and,
on the breaking up [33] of the body after death,
he is reborn in the happy heaven-world.
Monks, these are the five advantages from gifts.
Dear is the giver, goodly the way he takes,
Loved[2] by the good, God-goers,[3] self-restrained;
They teach him Dhamma that dispels all Ill,
That Dhamma he here having come to know,[4]
He rid of cankers waneth utterly.'[5]
[1] Gihidhammā anapeto. Comy. akhaṇḍa-pañcasīlā, the Dhamma of a Buddhamātā, J. i, 49.
[2] Comy. reads santo naṃ bhajanti, S.e. santo bhajanti sappurisā.
[3] Brahmacārayo; see Mrs. Rhys Davids' Gotama, 95.
[4] The last two lines of the text recur at Vin. ii, 148, 164; J. i, 94; below, § 38.
[5] Parinibbāti.
