{"id":"an4.55","title":"Equality (1st)","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an4.55","title":"Equality (1st)","units":[{"id":"an4.55:0","sourceIds":["an4.55:0.1","an4.55:0.2","an4.55:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 4.55\n6. Puññābhisandavagga\nPaṭhamasamajīvīsutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 4.55\n6. Overflowing Merit\nEquality (1st)"}},{"id":"an4.55:1","sourceIds":["an4.55:1.1","an4.55:1.2","an4.55:1.3","an4.55:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Evaṁ me sutaṁ—\nekaṁ samayaṁ bhagavā bhaggesu viharati susumāragire bhesakaḷāvane migadāye.\nAtha kho bhagavā pubbaṇhasamayaṁ nivāsetvā pattacīvaramādāya yena nakulapituno gahapatissa nivesanaṁ tenupasaṅkami; upasaṅkamitvā paññatte āsane nisīdi.\nAtha kho nakulapitā ca gahapati nakulamātā ca gahapatānī yena bhagavā tenupasaṅkamiṁsu; upasaṅkamitvā bhagavantaṁ abhivādetvā ekamantaṁ nisīdiṁsu. Ekamantaṁ nisinno kho nakulapitā gahapati bhagavantaṁ etadavoca:","en":"So I have heard.\nAt one time the Buddha was staying in the land of the Bhaggas at Crocodile’s Bellow, in the deer park at Bhesakaḷā’s Wood.\nThen the Buddha robed up in the morning and, taking his bowl and robe, went to the home of the householder Nakula’s father, where he sat down on the seat spread out.\nThen the householder Nakula’s father and the housewife Nakula’s mother went up to the Buddha, bowed, and sat down to one side. Nakula’s father said to the Buddha,"}},{"id":"an4.55:2","sourceIds":["an4.55:2.1","an4.55:2.2","an4.55:2.3","an4.55:2.4","an4.55:2.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Yato me, bhante, nakulamātā gahapatānī daharasseva daharā ānītā, nābhijānāmi nakulamātaraṁ gahapatāniṁ manasāpi aticaritā, kuto pana kāyena.\nIccheyyāma mayaṁ, bhante, diṭṭhe ceva dhamme aññamaññaṁ passituṁ abhisamparāyañca aññamaññaṁ passitun”ti.\nNakulamātāpi kho gahapatānī bhagavantaṁ etadavoca:\n“yatohaṁ, bhante, nakulapituno gahapatissa daharasseva daharā ānītā, nābhijānāmi nakulapitaraṁ gahapatiṁ manasāpi aticaritā, kuto pana kāyena.\nIccheyyāma mayaṁ, bhante, diṭṭhe ceva dhamme aññamaññaṁ passituṁ abhisamparāyañca aññamaññaṁ passitun”ti.","en":"“Sir, ever since we were both young, and Nakula’s mother was given to me in marriage, I can’t recall betraying her even in thought, still less in deed.\nWe want to see each other in both this life and the next.”\nThen Nakula’s mother said to the Buddha,\n“Sir, ever since we were both young, and I was given in marriage to Nakula’s father, I can’t recall betraying him even in thought, still less in deed.\nWe want to see each other in both this life and the next.”"}},{"id":"an4.55:3","sourceIds":["an4.55:3.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Ākaṅkheyyuñce, gahapatayo, ubho jānipatayo diṭṭhe ceva dhamme aññamaññaṁ passituṁ abhisamparāyañca aññamaññaṁ passituṁ ubhova assu samasaddhā samasīlā samacāgā samapaññā, te diṭṭhe ceva dhamme aññamaññaṁ passanti abhisamparāyañca aññamaññaṁ passantīti.","en":"“Householders, if wife and husband want to see each other in both this life and the next, they should be equals in faith, ethics, generosity, and wisdom."}},{"id":"an4.55:4","sourceIds":["an4.55:4.1","an4.55:4.2","an4.55:4.3","an4.55:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ubho saddhā vadaññū ca,\nsaññatā dhammajīvino;\nTe honti jānipatayo,\naññamaññaṁ piyaṁvadā.","en":"When both are faithful and bountiful,\ndisciplined, living righteously,\nthen wife and husband\nsay nice things to each other."}},{"id":"an4.55:5","sourceIds":["an4.55:5.1","an4.55:5.2","an4.55:5.3","an4.55:5.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atthāsaṁ pacurā honti,\nphāsukaṁ upajāyati;\nAmittā dummanā honti,\nubhinnaṁ samasīlinaṁ.","en":"Their needs are amply satisfied,\nso they live at ease.\nTheir enemies are downhearted,\nwhen both are equal in ethics."}},{"id":"an4.55:6","sourceIds":["an4.55:6.1","an4.55:6.2","an4.55:6.3","an4.55:6.4","an4.55:6.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Idha dhammaṁ caritvāna,\nsamasīlabbatā ubho;\nNandino devalokasmiṁ,\nmodanti kāmakāmino”ti.\nPañcamaṁ.","en":"Having practiced the teaching here,\nboth equal in precepts and observances,\nthey delight in the heavenly realm,\nenjoying all the pleasures they desire.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an4.55/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."}