{"id":"iti100","title":"The Brahmin’s Offering of the Teaching","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"iti100","title":"The Brahmin’s Offering of the Teaching","units":[{"id":"iti100:0","sourceIds":["iti100:0.1","iti100:0.2","iti100:0.3","iti100:0.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Itivuttaka 100\nCatukkanipāta\nBrāhmaṇadhammayāgavagga\nBrāhmaṇadhammayāgasutta","en":"So It Was Said 100\nThe Book of the Fours\nThe Chapter on the Brahmin’s Offering of the Teaching\nThe Brahmin’s Offering of the Teaching"}},{"id":"iti100:1","sourceIds":["iti100:1.1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Vuttañhetaṁ bhagavatā vuttamarahatāti me sutaṁ:","en":"This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard."}},{"id":"iti100:2","sourceIds":["iti100:2.1","iti100:2.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Ahamasmi, bhikkhave, brāhmaṇo yācayogo sadā payatapāṇi antimadehadharo anuttaro bhisakko sallakatto.\nTassa me tumhe puttā orasā mukhato jātā dhammajā dhammanimmitā dhammadāyādā, no āmisadāyādā.","en":"“I, mendicants, am a brahmin, committed to charity, always open-handed, bearing my final body, a healer, a surgeon.\nYou are my bosom sons, born from my mouth, born of the teaching, created by the teaching, heirs in the teaching, not in things of the flesh."}},{"id":"iti100:3","sourceIds":["iti100:3.1","iti100:3.2","iti100:3.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Dvemāni, bhikkhave, dānāni—\nāmisadānañca dhammadānañca.\nEtadaggaṁ, bhikkhave, imesaṁ dvinnaṁ dānānaṁ yadidaṁ dhammadānaṁ.","en":"There are these two gifts.\nA gift of things of the flesh and a gift of the teaching.\nThe better of these two gifts is the gift of the teaching."}},{"id":"iti100:4","sourceIds":["iti100:4.1","iti100:4.2","iti100:4.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Dveme, bhikkhave, saṁvibhāgā—\nāmisasaṁvibhāgo ca dhammasaṁvibhāgo ca.\nEtadaggaṁ, bhikkhave, imesaṁ dvinnaṁ saṁvibhāgānaṁ yadidaṁ dhammasaṁvibhāgo.","en":"There are these two kinds of sharing.\nSharing things of the flesh and sharing the teaching.\nThe better of these two kinds of sharing is sharing the teaching."}},{"id":"iti100:5","sourceIds":["iti100:5.1","iti100:5.2","iti100:5.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Dveme, bhikkhave, anuggahā—\nāmisānuggaho ca dhammānuggaho ca.\nEtadaggaṁ, bhikkhave, imesaṁ dvinnaṁ anuggahānaṁ yadidaṁ dhammānuggaho.","en":"There are these two kinds of support.\nSupport in things of the flesh and support in the teaching.\nThe better of these two kinds of support is support in the teaching."}},{"id":"iti100:6","sourceIds":["iti100:6.1","iti100:6.2","iti100:6.3","iti100:6.4","iti100:6.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Dveme, bhikkhave, yāgā—\nāmisayāgo ca dhammayāgo ca.\nEtadaggaṁ, bhikkhave, imesaṁ dvinnaṁ yāgānaṁ yadidaṁ dhammayāgo”ti.\nEtamatthaṁ bhagavā avoca.\nTatthetaṁ iti vuccati:","en":"There are these two offerings.\nAn offering of things of the flesh and an offering of the teaching.\nThe better of these two offerings is an offering of the teaching.”\nThe Buddha spoke this matter.\nOn this it is said:"}},{"id":"iti100:7","sourceIds":["iti100:7.1","iti100:7.2","iti100:7.3","iti100:7.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Yo dhammayāgaṁ ayajī amaccharī,\nTathāgato sabbabhūtānukampī;\nTaṁ tādisaṁ devamanussaseṭṭhaṁ,\nSattā namassanti bhavassa pāragun”ti.","en":"“The Realized One, compassionate for all living creatures,\nunstintingly offers teaching.\nSentient beings revere him, first among gods and humans,\nwho has gone beyond rebirth.”"}},{"id":"iti100:8","sourceIds":["iti100:8.1","iti100:8.2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ayampi attho vutto bhagavatā, iti me sutanti.\nPaṭhamaṁ.","en":"This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard."}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/iti100/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."}