{"id":"an4.20","title":"A Meal Assigner","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an4.20","title":"A Meal Assigner","units":[{"id":"an4.20:0","sourceIds":["an4.20:0.1","an4.20:0.2","an4.20:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 4.20\n2. Caravagga\nBhattuddesakasutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 4.20\n2. Walking\nA Meal Assigner"}},{"id":"an4.20:1","sourceIds":["an4.20:1.1","an4.20:1.2","an4.20:1.3","an4.20:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Catūhi, bhikkhave, dhammehi samannāgato bhattuddesako yathābhataṁ nikkhitto evaṁ niraye.\nKatamehi catūhi?\nChandāgatiṁ gacchati, dosāgatiṁ gacchati, mohāgatiṁ gacchati, bhayāgatiṁ gacchati—\nimehi kho, bhikkhave, catūhi dhammehi samannāgato bhattuddesako yathābhataṁ nikkhitto evaṁ niraye.","en":"“Mendicants, a meal assigner who has four qualities is placed in hell as if delivered there.\nWhat four?\nThey make decisions prejudiced by favoritism, hostility, stupidity, and cowardice.\nA meal assigner who has these four qualities is placed in hell as if delivered there."}},{"id":"an4.20:2","sourceIds":["an4.20:2.1","an4.20:2.2","an4.20:2.3","an4.20:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Catūhi, bhikkhave, dhammehi samannāgato bhattuddesako yathābhataṁ nikkhitto evaṁ sagge.\nKatamehi catūhi?\nNa chandāgatiṁ gacchati, na dosāgatiṁ gacchati, na mohāgatiṁ gacchati, na bhayāgatiṁ gacchati—\nimehi kho, bhikkhave, catūhi dhammehi samannāgato bhattuddesako yathābhataṁ nikkhitto evaṁ saggeti.","en":"A meal designator who has four qualities is placed in heaven as if delivered there.\nWhat four?\nThey make decisions unprejudiced by favoritism, hostility, stupidity, and cowardice.\nA meal assigner who has these four qualities is placed in heaven as if delivered there."}},{"id":"an4.20:3","sourceIds":["an4.20:3.1","an4.20:3.2","an4.20:3.3","an4.20:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ye keci kāmesu asaññatā janā,\nAdhammikā honti adhammagāravā;\nChandā dosā mohā ca bhayā gāmino,\nParisākasaṭo ca panesa vuccati.","en":"All those people with unbridled sensuality,\nunprincipled, with no respect for principle,\nled astray by favoritism or hostility, stupidity or cowardice,\nare called ‘an assembly of the dregs’:"}},{"id":"an4.20:4","sourceIds":["an4.20:4.1","an4.20:4.2","an4.20:4.3","an4.20:4.4","an4.20:4.5","an4.20:4.6","an4.20:4.7","an4.20:4.8"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Evañhi vuttaṁ samaṇena jānatā,\nTasmā hi te sappurisā pasaṁsiyā;\nDhamme ṭhitā ye na karonti pāpakaṁ,\nNa chandā na dosā na mohā na bhayā ca gāmino;\nParisāya maṇḍo ca panesa vuccati,\nEvañhi vuttaṁ samaṇena jānatā”ti.\nDasamaṁ.\nCaravaggo dutiyo.","en":"that’s what was said by the ascetic who knows.\nAnd so those praiseworthy true persons,\nstanding on principle, doing nothing wrong,\nnot led astray by favoritism or hostility, stupidity or cowardice,\nare called ‘an assembly of the cream’:\nthat’s what was said by the ascetic who knows.”"}},{"id":"an4.20:5","sourceIds":["an4.20:5.0","an4.20:5.1","an4.20:5.2","an4.20:5.3","an4.20:5.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tassuddānaṁ\nCaraṁ sīlaṁ padhānāni,\nsaṁvaraṁ paññatti pañcamaṁ;\nSokhummaṁ tayo agatī,\nbhattuddesena te dasāti."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an4.20/en/sujato","licence":"CC0 1.0","licenceUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","editionNote":"Full supplied source file; inherited abbreviations are preserved. Not a reconstructed expansion of every repetition. No Malay or Mandarin translation is implied."}