{"id":"an4.78","title":"A Religious Donation","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an4.78","title":"A Religious Donation","units":[{"id":"an4.78:0","sourceIds":["an4.78:0.1","an4.78:0.2","an4.78:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 4.78\n8. Apaṇṇakavagga\nDakkhiṇasutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 4.78\n8.  Sure Bet\nA Religious Donation"}},{"id":"an4.78:1","sourceIds":["an4.78:1.1","an4.78:1.2","an4.78:1.3","an4.78:1.4","an4.78:1.5","an4.78:1.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Catasso imā, bhikkhave, dakkhiṇā visuddhiyo.\nKatamā catasso?\nAtthi, bhikkhave, dakkhiṇā dāyakato visujjhati, no paṭiggāhakato;\natthi, bhikkhave, dakkhiṇā paṭiggāhakato visujjhati, no dāyakato;\natthi, bhikkhave, dakkhiṇā neva dāyakato visujjhati, no paṭiggāhakato;\natthi, bhikkhave, dakkhiṇā dāyakato ceva visujjhati paṭiggāhakato ca.","en":"“Mendicants, there are these four ways of purifying a religious donation.\nWhat four?\nThere’s a religious donation that’s purified by the giver, not the recipient.\nThere’s a religious donation that’s purified by the recipient, not the giver.\nThere’s a religious donation that’s purified by neither the giver nor the recipient.\nThere’s a religious donation that’s purified by both the giver and the recipient."}},{"id":"an4.78:2","sourceIds":["an4.78:2.1","an4.78:2.2","an4.78:2.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Kathañca, bhikkhave, dakkhiṇā dāyakato visujjhati, no paṭiggāhakato?\nIdha, bhikkhave, dāyako hoti sīlavā kalyāṇadhammo; paṭiggāhakā honti dussīlā pāpadhammā.\nEvaṁ kho, bhikkhave, dakkhiṇā dāyakato visujjhati, no paṭiggāhakato.","en":"And how is a religious donation purified by the giver, not the recipient?\nIt’s when the giver is ethical, of good character, but the recipient is unethical, of bad character."}},{"id":"an4.78:3","sourceIds":["an4.78:3.1","an4.78:3.2","an4.78:3.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Kathañca, bhikkhave, dakkhiṇā paṭiggāhakato visujjhati, no dāyakato?\nIdha, bhikkhave, dāyako hoti dussīlo pāpadhammo; paṭiggāhakā honti sīlavanto kalyāṇadhammā.\nEvaṁ kho, bhikkhave, dakkhiṇā paṭiggāhakato visujjhati, no dāyakato.","en":"And how is a religious donation purified by the recipient, not the giver?\nIt’s when the giver is unethical, of bad character, but the recipient is ethical, of good character."}},{"id":"an4.78:4","sourceIds":["an4.78:4.1","an4.78:4.2","an4.78:4.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Kathañca, bhikkhave, dakkhiṇā neva dāyakato visujjhati, no paṭiggāhakato?\nIdha, bhikkhave, dāyako hoti dussīlo pāpadhammo; paṭiggāhakāpi honti dussīlā pāpadhammā.\nEvaṁ kho, bhikkhave, dakkhiṇā neva dāyakato visujjhati, no paṭiggāhakato.","en":"And how is a religious donation purified by neither the giver nor the recipient?\nIt’s when both the giver and the recipient are unethical, of bad character."}},{"id":"an4.78:5","sourceIds":["an4.78:5.1","an4.78:5.2","an4.78:5.3","an4.78:5.4","an4.78:5.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Kathañca, bhikkhave, dakkhiṇā dāyakato ceva visujjhati paṭiggāhakato ca?\nIdha, bhikkhave, dāyako hoti sīlavā kalyāṇadhammo; paṭiggāhakāpi honti sīlavanto kalyāṇadhammā.\nEvaṁ kho, bhikkhave, dakkhiṇā dāyakato ceva visujjhati paṭiggāhakato ca.\nImā kho, bhikkhave, catasso dakkhiṇā visuddhiyo”ti.\nAṭṭhamaṁ.","en":"And how is a religious donation purified by both the giver and the recipient?\nIt’s when both the giver and the recipient are ethical, of good character.\nThese are the four ways of purifying a religious donation.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an4.78/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."}