Buddhism · Sutta Pitaka · Numbered Discourses (Aṅguttara)

AN 5.37

Food · Bhojanasutta

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“Mendicants, when a giver gives food, they give the recipients five things. What five? Long life, beauty, happiness, strength, and eloquence. Giving long life, they have long life as a god or human. Giving beauty, they have beauty as a god or human. Giving happiness, they have happiness as a god or human. Giving strength, they have strength as a god or human. Giving eloquence, they are eloquent as a god or human. When a giver gives food, they give the recipients five things.

“Bhojanaṁ, bhikkhave, dadamāno dāyako paṭiggāhakānaṁ pañca ṭhānāni deti. Katamāni pañca? Āyuṁ deti, vaṇṇaṁ deti, sukhaṁ deti, balaṁ deti, paṭibhānaṁ deti. Āyuṁ kho pana datvā āyussa bhāgī hoti dibbassa vā mānusassa vā; vaṇṇaṁ datvā vaṇṇassa bhāgī hoti dibbassa vā mānusassa vā; sukhaṁ datvā sukhassa bhāgī hoti dibbassa vā mānusassa vā; balaṁ datvā balassa bhāgī hoti dibbassa vā mānusassa vā; paṭibhānaṁ datvā paṭibhānassa bhāgī hoti dibbassa vā mānusassa vā. Bhojanaṁ, bhikkhave, dadamāno dāyako paṭiggāhakānaṁ imāni pañca ṭhānāni detīti.

Being attentive, one is a giver of life, strength, beauty, and eloquence. An intelligent giver of happiness gains happiness in return.

Āyudo balado dhīro, vaṇṇado paṭibhānado; Sukhassa dātā medhāvī, sukhaṁ so adhigacchati.

Giving life, strength, beauty, happiness, and eloquence, they’re long-lived and famous wherever they’re reborn.”

Āyuṁ datvā balaṁ vaṇṇaṁ, sukhañca paṭibhānakaṁ; Dīghāyu yasavā hoti, yattha yatthūpapajjatī”ti. Sattamaṁ.