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1Bhagavat : ‘ Whosoever has no quarrels, whose mind is untroubled, and who has freed himself from lusts, whose sloth is driven away, (483) 31. ‘Whosoever conquers his sins, knows birth and death, the Muni who is endowed with wisdom 2, such a one who has resorted to offering, (484) 32. ‘Him you should worship and honour with food and drink; so the gifts will prosper.’ (485) 33. Sundarikabhéradvaga: ‘Thou Buddha deservest the oblation, (thou art) the best field for good works, the object of offering to all the world; what is given to thee will bear great fruit.’ (486) Then the Brahmaza Sundarikabharadvéga said this to Bhagavat: ‘It is excellent, O venerable Gotama! It is excellent, O venerable Gotama! As one raises what has been overthrown, or reveals what has been hidden, or tells the way to him who has gone astray, or holds out an oil lamp in the dark that those who have eyes may see the objects, even so by the venerable Gotama in manifold ways the Dhamma has been illustrated; I take refuge in 1 Comp. Kasibharadv4gasutta, v. 7. 3 Moneyyasampannam =pafidsampannam, Commentator. 80 MAHAVAGGA. the venerable Gotama, in the Dhamma, and in the Assembly of Bhikkhus; I wish to receive the robe and the orders from the venerable Gotama.’ The Bréhmaza Sundarikabh4radva4ga received the pabbagg4 from Bhagavat, and he received also the upasampadé ; and the venerable Bharadva4ga, having lately received the upasampada, leading a solitary, retired, strenuous, ardent, energetic life, lived after having in a short time in this existence by his own understanding ascertained and possessed himself of that highest perfection of a religious life for the sake of which men of good family rightly wander away from their houses to a houseless state. ‘Birth had been destroyed, a religious life had been led, what was to be done had been done, there was nothing else (to be done) for this existence,’ so he perceived, and the venerable Bharadv4ga became one of the arahats. Sundarikabharadvagasutta is ended. 5. MAGHASUTTA. Buddha on being asked tells MAgha of those worthy of offerings: and the blessing of offering. So it was heard by me: At one time Bhagavat dwelt at Ragagaha, in the mountain (called) the Vulture’s Peak (Gigghakia). Then the young man Magha went to Bhagavat, and having gone to him he talked pleasantly with him, and after having had some pleasant, remarkable conversation with him he sat down apart; sitting down apart the young man Magha spoke this to Bhagavat: MAGHASUTTA. 81 - ‘O-venerable Gotama, I am a liberal giver, bountiful, suitable to beg of; justly I seek for riches, and having sought for riches justly, I give out of the justly obtained and justly acquired riches to one, to two, to three, to four, to five, to six, to seven, to eight, to nine, to ten, to twenty, to thirty, to forty, to fifty, to a hundred, I give still more. (I should like to know), O venerable Gotama, whether I, while so giving, so offering, produce much good.’
2(I should like to know), O venerable Gotama, whether I, while so giving, so offering, produce much good.’ ‘Certainly, O young man, dost thou in so offering produce much good; he, O young man, who is a liberal giver, bountiful, suitable to beg of, and who justly seeks for riches, and having sought for riches justly, gives out of his justly obtained and justly acquired riches to one, to two, to three, to four, to five, to six, to seven, to eight, to nine, to ten, to twenty, to thirty, to forty, to fifty, to a hundred, and gives still more, produces much good.’ Then the young man M4gha addressed Bhagavat in stanzas : 1. ‘I ask the venerable Gotama, the bountiful,’-— so said the young man M4gha,—‘ wearing the yel- ‘low robe, wandering about houseless :’ ‘He who is a householder, suitable to beg of, a donor, who, desirous of good, offers having what is good in view, and giving to others in this world food and drink,— where (i.e. on whom bestowed) will the oblation of such an offerer prosper?’ (487) 2. ‘He who is a householder, suitable to beg of, a donor,’ O MAgha,—so said Bhagavat,— who, de- - sirous of good, offers having what is good in view, and giving to others in this world food and drink, such a one will prosper with those worthy of offerings.’ (488) [10] G 82 .MAHAVAGGA. 3. ‘He who is a householder, suitable to beg of, a donor,’—so said the young man,—‘ who, desirous of good, offers having what is good in view, and giving to others in this world food and drink,—tell me (I being such a one), O Bhagavat, of those worthy of offerings.’ (489) 4. Bhagavat: ‘Those indeed who wander about in the world without clinging to anything and without possessing anything, perfect, self-restrained, on such in due time people should bestow oblations; let the Brahmaza who has good (works) in view, offer. (490) 5. ‘ Those who have cut through all bonds and fetters, who are subdued, liberated, free from pain, and free from desire, on such in due time people should bestow oblations; let the Brahmaza who has good (works) in view, offer. (491) 6. ‘ Those who are released from all: bonds, who are subdued, liberated, free from pain, and free from desire, on such in due time people should bestow oblations; let the Brahmaza who has good (works) in view, offer. (492) 7. ‘Those who, having forsaken both passion and hatred and folly, have destroyed their desires and lead a religious life, on such in due time people should bestow oblations; let the Brahmaza who has good (works) in view, offer?. (493) 8. ‘Those in whom there lives no deceit, no arrogance, who are free from cupidity, free from selfishness, free from desire, on such in due time people should bestow oblations ; let the Brahmaza who has good (works) in view, offer. (494) g. ‘Those indeed who without being lost in desire, * Comp. Dhp. v. 20.. MAGHASUTTA, 83
3(494) g. ‘Those indeed who without being lost in desire, * Comp. Dhp. v. 20.. MAGHASUTTA, 83 after crossing the stream (of existence), wander about free from selfishness, on such in due time people should bestow oblations ; let the Brahmaza who has good (works) in view, offer. (495) 10. ‘ Those in whom there is no desire for anything in the world, nor for existence after existence here or in the other world, on such in due time people should bestow oblations; let the Brahmaza who has good (works) in view, offer. (496) 11. ‘Those who, after leaving sensual pleasures, wander about houseless, well restrained, being like a straight shuttle, on such in due time people should bestow oblations; let the Brahmaza who has good (works) in view, offer. (497) 12. ‘ Those whose passions are gone, whose senses are well composed, who are liberated like the moon out of the grasp of Rahu, on such in due time people should bestow oblations ; let the Brahmaza who has good (works) in view, offer. (498) 13. ‘Those who are calm, whose passions are gone, who are without anger, and for whom there is no transmigration after having left here, on such in due time people should bestow oblations; let the Brahmava who has good (works) in view, offer. (499) 14. ‘ Those who, after leaving birth and death altogether, have conquered all doubt, on such in due time people should bestow oblations; let the Brahmaza who has good (works) in view, offer. (500) 15. ‘ Those who wander about in the world with themselves for a light, not possessed of anything, in every respect liberated, on such in due time people should bestow oblations ; let the Brahmaza who has good (works) in view, offer. (501) 16. ‘Those who in this world rightly understand G 2 84 MAHAVAGGA. this: “ This is the last (birth), there is no re-birth,” on such in due time people should bestow oblations ; let the Brahmaza who has good (works) in view, offer. (502) 17. ‘He who is accomplished, and delights in meditation, thoughtful, possessed of thorough enlightenment, a refuge for many, on such a one in due time people should bestow oblations; let the Brahmaza who has good (works) in view, offer.’ (503) 18, ‘Certainly my question was not in vain, Bhagavat has told me of those worthy of offerings; for thou truly knowest this in this world, as surely to thee this Dhamma is known. (504) 19. ‘He who is a householder, suitable to beg of, a donor,’—so said the young man M4gha,—‘ who, desirous of good, offers having what is good in view, and giving to others in this world food and drink,—tell me ‘(I being such'a one), O Bhagavat, of the blessing of offering.’ (505) 20. ‘Offer, O Magha,’—so said Bhagavat,—‘ and while offering make calm thy mind in all things ; the object of the one that offers is the oblation, standing fast in this he leaves hatred behind. (506)
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
Romanised transliteration as printed by the translator, not the original script. This is what we hold.
1Bhagavat : ‘ Whosoever has no quarrels, whose mind is untroubled, and who has freed himself from lusts, whose sloth is driven away, (483) 31. ‘Whosoever conquers his sins, knows birth and death, the Muni who is endowed with wisdom 2, such a one who has resorted to offering, (484) 32. ‘Him you should worship and honour with food and drink; so the gifts will prosper.’ (485) 33. Sundarikabhéradvaga: ‘Thou Buddha deservest the oblation, (thou art) the best field for good works, the object of offering to all the world; what is given to thee will bear great fruit.’ (486) Then the Brahmaza Sundarikabharadvéga said this to Bhagavat: ‘It is excellent, O venerable Gotama! It is excellent, O venerable Gotama! As one raises what has been overthrown, or reveals what has been hidden, or tells the way to him who has gone astray, or holds out an oil lamp in the dark that those who have eyes may see the objects, even so by the venerable Gotama in manifold ways the Dhamma has been illustrated; I take refuge in 1 Comp. Kasibharadv4gasutta, v. 7. 3 Moneyyasampannam =pafidsampannam, Commentator. 80 MAHAVAGGA. the venerable Gotama, in the Dhamma, and in the Assembly of Bhikkhus; I wish to receive the robe and the orders from the venerable Gotama.’ The Bréhmaza Sundarikabh4radva4ga received the pabbagg4 from Bhagavat, and he received also the upasampadé ; and the venerable Bharadva4ga, having lately received the upasampada, leading a solitary, retired, strenuous, ardent, energetic life, lived after having in a short time in this existence by his own understanding ascertained and possessed himself of that highest perfection of a religious life for the sake of which men of good family rightly wander away from their houses to a houseless state. ‘Birth had been destroyed, a religious life had been led, what was to be done had been done, there was nothing else (to be done) for this existence,’ so he perceived, and the venerable Bharadv4ga became one of the arahats. Sundarikabharadvagasutta is ended. 5. MAGHASUTTA. Buddha on being asked tells MAgha of those worthy of offerings: and the blessing of offering. So it was heard by me: At one time Bhagavat dwelt at Ragagaha, in the mountain (called) the Vulture’s Peak (Gigghakia). Then the young man Magha went to Bhagavat, and having gone to him he talked pleasantly with him, and after having had some pleasant, remarkable conversation with him he sat down apart; sitting down apart the young man Magha spoke this to Bhagavat: MAGHASUTTA. 81 - ‘O-venerable Gotama, I am a liberal giver, bountiful, suitable to beg of; justly I seek for riches, and having sought for riches justly, I give out of the justly obtained and justly acquired riches to one, to two, to three, to four, to five, to six, to seven, to eight, to nine, to ten, to twenty, to thirty, to forty, to fifty, to a hundred, I give still more. (I should like to know), O venerable Gotama, whether I, while so giving, so offering, produce much good.’
2(I should like to know), O venerable Gotama, whether I, while so giving, so offering, produce much good.’ ‘Certainly, O young man, dost thou in so offering produce much good; he, O young man, who is a liberal giver, bountiful, suitable to beg of, and who justly seeks for riches, and having sought for riches justly, gives out of his justly obtained and justly acquired riches to one, to two, to three, to four, to five, to six, to seven, to eight, to nine, to ten, to twenty, to thirty, to forty, to fifty, to a hundred, and gives still more, produces much good.’ Then the young man M4gha addressed Bhagavat in stanzas : 1. ‘I ask the venerable Gotama, the bountiful,’-— so said the young man M4gha,—‘ wearing the yel- ‘low robe, wandering about houseless :’ ‘He who is a householder, suitable to beg of, a donor, who, desirous of good, offers having what is good in view, and giving to others in this world food and drink,— where (i.e. on whom bestowed) will the oblation of such an offerer prosper?’ (487) 2. ‘He who is a householder, suitable to beg of, a donor,’ O MAgha,—so said Bhagavat,— who, de- - sirous of good, offers having what is good in view, and giving to others in this world food and drink, such a one will prosper with those worthy of offerings.’ (488) [10] G 82 .MAHAVAGGA. 3. ‘He who is a householder, suitable to beg of, a donor,’—so said the young man,—‘ who, desirous of good, offers having what is good in view, and giving to others in this world food and drink,—tell me (I being such a one), O Bhagavat, of those worthy of offerings.’ (489) 4. Bhagavat: ‘Those indeed who wander about in the world without clinging to anything and without possessing anything, perfect, self-restrained, on such in due time people should bestow oblations; let the Brahmaza who has good (works) in view, offer. (490) 5. ‘ Those who have cut through all bonds and fetters, who are subdued, liberated, free from pain, and free from desire, on such in due time people should bestow oblations; let the Brahmaza who has good (works) in view, offer. (491) 6. ‘ Those who are released from all: bonds, who are subdued, liberated, free from pain, and free from desire, on such in due time people should bestow oblations; let the Brahmaza who has good (works) in view, offer. (492) 7. ‘Those who, having forsaken both passion and hatred and folly, have destroyed their desires and lead a religious life, on such in due time people should bestow oblations; let the Brahmaza who has good (works) in view, offer?. (493) 8. ‘Those in whom there lives no deceit, no arrogance, who are free from cupidity, free from selfishness, free from desire, on such in due time people should bestow oblations ; let the Brahmaza who has good (works) in view, offer. (494) g. ‘Those indeed who without being lost in desire, * Comp. Dhp. v. 20.. MAGHASUTTA, 83
3(494) g. ‘Those indeed who without being lost in desire, * Comp. Dhp. v. 20.. MAGHASUTTA, 83 after crossing the stream (of existence), wander about free from selfishness, on such in due time people should bestow oblations ; let the Brahmaza who has good (works) in view, offer. (495) 10. ‘ Those in whom there is no desire for anything in the world, nor for existence after existence here or in the other world, on such in due time people should bestow oblations; let the Brahmaza who has good (works) in view, offer. (496) 11. ‘Those who, after leaving sensual pleasures, wander about houseless, well restrained, being like a straight shuttle, on such in due time people should bestow oblations; let the Brahmaza who has good (works) in view, offer. (497) 12. ‘ Those whose passions are gone, whose senses are well composed, who are liberated like the moon out of the grasp of Rahu, on such in due time people should bestow oblations ; let the Brahmaza who has good (works) in view, offer. (498) 13. ‘Those who are calm, whose passions are gone, who are without anger, and for whom there is no transmigration after having left here, on such in due time people should bestow oblations; let the Brahmava who has good (works) in view, offer. (499) 14. ‘ Those who, after leaving birth and death altogether, have conquered all doubt, on such in due time people should bestow oblations; let the Brahmaza who has good (works) in view, offer. (500) 15. ‘ Those who wander about in the world with themselves for a light, not possessed of anything, in every respect liberated, on such in due time people should bestow oblations ; let the Brahmaza who has good (works) in view, offer. (501) 16. ‘Those who in this world rightly understand G 2 84 MAHAVAGGA. this: “ This is the last (birth), there is no re-birth,” on such in due time people should bestow oblations ; let the Brahmaza who has good (works) in view, offer. (502) 17. ‘He who is accomplished, and delights in meditation, thoughtful, possessed of thorough enlightenment, a refuge for many, on such a one in due time people should bestow oblations; let the Brahmaza who has good (works) in view, offer.’ (503) 18, ‘Certainly my question was not in vain, Bhagavat has told me of those worthy of offerings; for thou truly knowest this in this world, as surely to thee this Dhamma is known. (504) 19. ‘He who is a householder, suitable to beg of, a donor,’—so said the young man M4gha,—‘ who, desirous of good, offers having what is good in view, and giving to others in this world food and drink,—tell me ‘(I being such'a one), O Bhagavat, of the blessing of offering.’ (505) 20. ‘Offer, O Magha,’—so said Bhagavat,—‘ and while offering make calm thy mind in all things ; the object of the one that offers is the oblation, standing fast in this he leaves hatred behind. (506)
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