{"id":"an8.37","title":"Gifts of a True Person","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an8.37","title":"Gifts of a True Person","units":[{"id":"an8.37:0","sourceIds":["an8.37:0.1","an8.37:0.2","an8.37:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 8.37\n4. Dānavagga\nSappurisadānasutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 8.37\n4. Giving\nGifts of a True Person"}},{"id":"an8.37:1","sourceIds":["an8.37:1.1","an8.37:1.2","an8.37:1.3","an8.37:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Aṭṭhimāni, bhikkhave, sappurisadānāni.\nKatamāni aṭṭha?\nSuciṁ deti, paṇītaṁ deti, kālena deti, kappiyaṁ deti, viceyya deti, abhiṇhaṁ deti, dadaṁ cittaṁ pasādeti, datvā attamano hoti.\nImāni kho, bhikkhave, aṭṭha sappurisadānānīti.","en":"“Mendicants, there are these eight gifts of a true person.\nWhat eight?\nTheir gift is pure, good quality, timely, appropriate, intelligent, and regular. While giving their heart is confident, and afterwards they’re uplifted.\nThese are the eight gifts of a true person."}},{"id":"an8.37:2","sourceIds":["an8.37:2.1","an8.37:2.2","an8.37:2.3","an8.37:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Suciṁ paṇītaṁ kālena,\nkappiyaṁ pānabhojanaṁ;\nAbhiṇhaṁ dadāti dānaṁ,\nsukhettesu brahmacārisu.","en":"He gives pure, good quality, and timely gifts\nof appropriate food and drinks\nregularly to spiritual practitioners\nwho are fertile fields of merit."}},{"id":"an8.37:3","sourceIds":["an8.37:3.1","an8.37:3.2","an8.37:3.3","an8.37:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Neva vippaṭisārissa,\ncajitvā āmisaṁ bahuṁ;\nEvaṁ dinnāni dānāni,\nvaṇṇayanti vipassino.","en":"They never regret\ngiving away many things of the flesh.\nDiscerning people praise\ngiving such gifts."}},{"id":"an8.37:4","sourceIds":["an8.37:4.1","an8.37:4.2","an8.37:4.3","an8.37:4.4","an8.37:4.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Evaṁ yajitvā medhāvī,\nsaddho muttena cetasā;\nAbyābajjhaṁ sukhaṁ lokaṁ,\npaṇḍito upapajjatī”ti.\nSattamaṁ.","en":"An intelligent person sacrifices like this,\nfaithful, with a mind of letting go.\nSuch an astute person is reborn\nin a happy, pleasing world.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an8.37/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."}