{"id":"an5.272","title":"A Meal Assigner","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an5.272","title":"A Meal Assigner","units":[{"id":"an5.272:0","sourceIds":["an5.272:0.1","an5.272:0.2","an5.272:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 5.272\n27. Sammutipeyyāla\nBhattuddesakasutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 5.272\n27. Abbreviated Texts on Appointments\nA Meal Assigner"}},{"id":"an5.272:1","sourceIds":["an5.272:1.1","an5.272:1.2","an5.272:1.3","an5.272:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Pañcahi, bhikkhave, dhammehi samannāgato bhattuddesako na sammannitabbo.\nKatamehi pañcahi?\nChandāgatiṁ gacchati, dosāgatiṁ gacchati, mohāgatiṁ gacchati, bhayāgatiṁ gacchati, uddiṭṭhānuddiṭṭhaṁ na jānāti.\nImehi kho, bhikkhave, pañcahi dhammehi samannāgato bhattuddesako na sammannitabbo.","en":"“Mendicants, someone with five qualities should not be appointed as meal assigner.\nWhat five?\nThey make decisions prejudiced by favoritism, hostility, stupidity, and cowardice. And they don’t know if a meal has been assigned or not.\nSomeone with these five qualities should not be appointed as meal assigner."}},{"id":"an5.272:2","sourceIds":["an5.272:2.1","an5.272:2.2","an5.272:2.3","an5.272:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Pañcahi, bhikkhave, dhammehi samannāgato bhattuddesako sammannitabbo.\nKatamehi pañcahi?\nNa chandāgatiṁ gacchati, na dosāgatiṁ gacchati, na mohāgatiṁ gacchati, na bhayāgatiṁ gacchati, uddiṭṭhānuddiṭṭhaṁ jānāti.\nImehi kho, bhikkhave, pañcahi dhammehi samannāgato bhattuddesako sammannitabboti.","en":"Someone with five qualities should be appointed as meal assigner.\nWhat five?\nThey don’t make decisions prejudiced by favoritism, hostility, stupidity, and cowardice. And they know if a meal has been assigned or not.\nSomeone with these five qualities should be appointed as meal assigner."}},{"id":"an5.272:3","sourceIds":["an5.272:3.1","an5.272:3.2","an5.272:3.3","an5.272:3.4","an5.272:3.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Pañcahi, bhikkhave, dhammehi samannāgato bhattuddesako sammato na pesetabbo …pe… sammato pesetabbo … bālo veditabbo … paṇḍito veditabbo … khataṁ upahataṁ attānaṁ pariharati … akkhataṁ anupahataṁ attānaṁ pariharati … yathābhataṁ nikkhitto evaṁ niraye … yathābhataṁ nikkhitto evaṁ sagge.\nKatamehi pañcahi?\nNa chandāgatiṁ gacchati, na dosāgatiṁ gacchati, na mohāgatiṁ gacchati, na bhayāgatiṁ gacchati, uddiṭṭhānuddiṭṭhaṁ jānāti.\nImehi kho, bhikkhave, pañcahi dhammehi samannāgato bhattuddesako yathābhataṁ nikkhitto evaṁ sagge”ti.\nPaṭhamaṁ.","en":"Someone with five qualities who has been appointed as meal assigner should not be called upon … should be called upon … should be known as a fool … should be known as astute … they keep themselves broken and damaged … they keep themselves unbroken and undamaged … is placed in hell as if delivered there … is placed in heaven as if delivered there.\nWhat five?\nThey don’t make decisions prejudiced by favoritism, hostility, stupidity, and cowardice. And they know if a meal has been assigned or not.\nA meal assigner with these five qualities is placed in heaven as if delivered there.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an5.272/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."}