{"id":"an8.31","title":"Giving (1st)","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an8.31","title":"Giving (1st)","units":[{"id":"an8.31:0","sourceIds":["an8.31:0.1","an8.31:0.2","an8.31:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 8.31\n4. Dānavagga\nPaṭhamadānasutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 8.31\n4. Giving\nGiving (1st)"}},{"id":"an8.31:1","sourceIds":["an8.31:1.1","an8.31:1.2","an8.31:1.3","an8.31:1.4","an8.31:1.5","an8.31:1.6","an8.31:1.7","an8.31:1.8","an8.31:1.9","an8.31:1.10","an8.31:1.11","an8.31:1.12"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Aṭṭhimāni, bhikkhave, dānāni.\nKatamāni aṭṭha?\nĀsajja dānaṁ deti,\nbhayā dānaṁ deti,\n‘adāsi me’ti dānaṁ deti,\n‘dassati me’ti dānaṁ deti,\n‘sāhu dānan’ti dānaṁ deti,\n‘ahaṁ pacāmi, ime na pacanti; nārahāmi pacanto apacantānaṁ dānaṁ adātun’ti dānaṁ deti,\n‘imaṁ me dānaṁ dadato kalyāṇo kittisaddo abbhuggacchatī’ti dānaṁ deti,\ncittālaṅkāracittaparikkhāratthaṁ dānaṁ deti.\nImāni kho, bhikkhave, aṭṭha dānānī”ti.\nPaṭhamaṁ.","en":"“Mendicants, there are these eight gifts.\nWhat eight?\nSomeone might give a gift after insulting the recipient.\nOr they give out of fear.\nOr they give thinking, ‘They gave to me.’\nOr they give thinking, ‘They’ll give to me.’\nOr they give thinking, ‘It’s good to give.’\nOr they give thinking, ‘I cook, they don’t. It wouldn’t be right for me to not give to them.’\nOr they give thinking, ‘By giving this gift I’ll get a good reputation.’\nOr they give thinking, ‘This is an adornment and requisite for the mind.’\nThese are the eight gifts.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an8.31/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."}