{"id":"sn1.49","title":"Stingy","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"sn1.49","title":"Stingy","units":[{"id":"sn1.49:0","sourceIds":["sn1.49:0.1","sn1.49:0.2","sn1.49:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Saṁyutta Nikāya 1.49\n5. Ādittavagga\nMaccharisutta","en":"Linked Discourses 1.49\n5. On Fire\nStingy"}},{"id":"sn1.49:1","sourceIds":["sn1.49:1.1","sn1.49:1.2","sn1.49:1.3","sn1.49:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Yedha maccharino loke,\nkadariyā paribhāsakā;\nAññesaṁ dadamānānaṁ,\nantarāyakarā narā.","en":"“Those folk in the world who are stingy,\nmiserly and abusive,\nsetting up obstacles\nfor others who give."}},{"id":"sn1.49:2","sourceIds":["sn1.49:2.1","sn1.49:2.2","sn1.49:2.3","sn1.49:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Kīdiso tesaṁ vipāko,\nsamparāyo ca kīdiso;\nBhagavantaṁ puṭṭhumāgamma,\nkathaṁ jānemu taṁ mayan”ti.","en":"What kind of result do they reap?\nWhat kind of future life?\nWe’ve come to ask the worthy sir:\nhow are we to understand this?”"}},{"id":"sn1.49:3","sourceIds":["sn1.49:3.1","sn1.49:3.2","sn1.49:3.3","sn1.49:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Yedha maccharino loke,\nkadariyā paribhāsakā;\nAññesaṁ dadamānānaṁ,\nantarāyakarā narā.","en":"“Those folk in the world who are stingy,\nmiserly and abusive,\nsetting up obstacles\nfor others who give:"}},{"id":"sn1.49:4","sourceIds":["sn1.49:4.1","sn1.49:4.2","sn1.49:4.3","sn1.49:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Nirayaṁ tiracchānayoniṁ,\nyamalokaṁ upapajjare;\nSace enti manussattaṁ,\ndalidde jāyare kule.","en":"they’re reborn in hell,\nthe animal realm, or Yama’s world.\nIf they return to the human state,\nthey’re born in a poor family,"}},{"id":"sn1.49:5","sourceIds":["sn1.49:5.1","sn1.49:5.2","sn1.49:5.3","sn1.49:5.4","sn1.49:5.5","sn1.49:5.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Coḷaṁ piṇḍo ratī khiḍḍā,\nyattha kicchena labbhati;\nParato āsīsare bālā,\ntampi tesaṁ na labbhati;\nDiṭṭhe dhammesa vipāko,\nsamparāye ca duggatī”ti.","en":"where clothes, food, pleasure, and play\nare hard to find.\nThey don’t even get\nwhat they hope for from others.\nThis is the result in the present life,\nand in the next, a bad destination.”"}},{"id":"sn1.49:6","sourceIds":["sn1.49:6.1","sn1.49:6.2","sn1.49:6.3","sn1.49:6.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Itihetaṁ vijānāma,\naññaṁ pucchāma gotama;\nYedha laddhā manussattaṁ,\nvadaññū vītamaccharā.","en":"“We understand what you’re saying,\nand ask another question, Gotama.\nWhat about those who’ve gained the human state,\nwho are bountiful and rid of stinginess,"}},{"id":"sn1.49:7","sourceIds":["sn1.49:7.1","sn1.49:7.2","sn1.49:7.3","sn1.49:7.4","sn1.49:7.5","sn1.49:7.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Buddhe pasannā dhamme ca,\nsaṅghe ca tibbagāravā;\nKīdiso tesaṁ vipāko,\nsamparāyo ca kīdiso;\nBhagavantaṁ puṭṭhumāgamma,\nkathaṁ jānemu taṁ mayan”ti.","en":"confident in the Buddha and the teaching,\nwith keen respect for the Saṅgha?\nWhat kind of result do they reap?\nWhat kind of future life?\nWe’ve come to ask the worthy sir:\nhow are we to understand this?”"}},{"id":"sn1.49:8","sourceIds":["sn1.49:8.1","sn1.49:8.2","sn1.49:8.3","sn1.49:8.4","sn1.49:8.5","sn1.49:8.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Yedha laddhā manussattaṁ,\nvadaññū vītamaccharā;\nBuddhe pasannā dhamme ca,\nsaṅghe ca tibbagāravā;\nEte saggā pakāsanti,\nyattha te upapajjare.","en":"“Those who’ve gained the human state\nwho are bountiful and rid of stinginess,\nconfident in the Buddha and the teaching,\nwith keen respect for the Saṅgha:\nthey illuminate the heavens\nwherever they’re reborn."}},{"id":"sn1.49:9","sourceIds":["sn1.49:9.1","sn1.49:9.2","sn1.49:9.3","sn1.49:9.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sace enti manussattaṁ,\naḍḍhe ājāyare kule;\nCoḷaṁ piṇḍo ratī khiḍḍā,\nyatthākicchena labbhati.","en":"If they return to the human state,\nthey’re reborn in a rich family,\nwhere clothes, food, pleasure, and play\nare easy to find."}},{"id":"sn1.49:10","sourceIds":["sn1.49:10.1","sn1.49:10.2","sn1.49:10.3","sn1.49:10.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Parasambhatesu bhogesu,\nvasavattīva modare;\nDiṭṭhe dhammesa vipāko,\nsamparāye ca suggatī”ti.","en":"They rejoice like those\nwho control the possessions of others.\nThis is the result in the present life,\nand in the next, a good destination.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/sn1.49/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."}