{"id":"an5.36","title":"Timely Gifts","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an5.36","title":"Timely Gifts","units":[{"id":"an5.36:0","sourceIds":["an5.36:0.1","an5.36:0.2","an5.36:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 5.36\n4. Sumanavagga\nKāladānasutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 5.36\n4. With Sumanā\nTimely Gifts"}},{"id":"an5.36:1","sourceIds":["an5.36:1.1","an5.36:1.2","an5.36:1.3","an5.36:1.4","an5.36:1.5","an5.36:1.6","an5.36:1.7","an5.36:1.8"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Pañcimāni, bhikkhave, kāladānāni.\nKatamāni pañca?\nĀgantukassa dānaṁ deti;\ngamikassa dānaṁ deti;\ngilānassa dānaṁ deti;\ndubbhikkhe dānaṁ deti;\nyāni tāni navasassāni navaphalāni tāni paṭhamaṁ sīlavantesu patiṭṭhāpeti.\nImāni kho, bhikkhave, pañca kāladānānīti.","en":"“Mendicants, there are these five timely gifts.\nWhat five?\nA gift to a visitor.\nA gift to someone setting out on a journey.\nA gift to someone who is sick.\nA gift at a time of famine.\nPresenting the freshly harvested grains and fruits first to those who are ethical.\nThese are the five timely gifts."}},{"id":"an5.36:2","sourceIds":["an5.36:2.1","an5.36:2.2","an5.36:2.3","an5.36:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Kāle dadanti sappaññā,\nvadaññū vītamaccharā;\nKālena dinnaṁ ariyesu,\nujubhūtesu tādisu.","en":"The wise give at the right time,\nbeing bountiful and rid of stinginess.\nA religious donation at the right time\nto the noble ones, upright and unaffected,"}},{"id":"an5.36:3","sourceIds":["an5.36:3.1","an5.36:3.2","an5.36:3.3","an5.36:3.4","an5.36:3.5","an5.36:3.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Vippasannamanā tassa,\nvipulā hoti dakkhiṇā;\nYe tattha anumodanti,\nveyyāvaccaṁ karonti vā;\nNa tena dakkhiṇā ūnā,\ntepi puññassa bhāgino.","en":"given with a clear and confident mind,\nis indeed abundant.\nThose who rejoice at that,\nor do other services,\ndon’t miss out on the offering;\nthey too have a share in the merit."}},{"id":"an5.36:4","sourceIds":["an5.36:4.1","an5.36:4.2","an5.36:4.3","an5.36:4.4","an5.36:4.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Tasmā dade appaṭivānacitto,\nYattha dinnaṁ mahapphalaṁ;\nPuññāni paralokasmiṁ,\nPatiṭṭhā honti pāṇinan”ti.\nChaṭṭhaṁ.","en":"So you should give without holding back,\nwhere a gift is very fruitful.\nThe good deeds of sentient beings\nsupport them in the next world.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an5.36/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."}