{"id":"an7.36","title":"A Friend (1st)","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"an7.36","title":"A Friend (1st)","units":[{"id":"an7.36:0","sourceIds":["an7.36:0.1","an7.36:0.2","an7.36:0.3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Aṅguttara Nikāya 7.36\n4. Devatāvagga\nPaṭhamamittasutta","en":"Numbered Discourses 7.36\n4. Deities\nA Friend (1st)"}},{"id":"an7.36:1","sourceIds":["an7.36:1.1","an7.36:1.2","an7.36:1.3","an7.36:1.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Sattahi, bhikkhave, aṅgehi samannāgato mitto sevitabbo.\nKatamehi sattahi?\nDuddadaṁ dadāti, dukkaraṁ karoti, dukkhamaṁ khamati, guyhamassa āvi karoti, guyhamassa pariguhati, āpadāsu na jahati, khīṇena nātimaññati.\nImehi kho, bhikkhave, sattahi aṅgehi samannāgato mitto sevitabboti.","en":"“Mendicants, you should associate with a friend who has seven factors.\nWhat seven?\nThey give what is hard to give. They do what is hard to do. They endure what is hard to endure. They reveal their secrets to you. They keep your secrets. They don’t abandon you in times of trouble. They don’t look down on you in times of loss.\nYou should associate with a friend who has these seven factors."}},{"id":"an7.36:2","sourceIds":["an7.36:2.1","an7.36:2.2","an7.36:2.3","an7.36:2.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Duddadaṁ dadāti mitto,\ndukkarañcāpi kubbati;\nAthopissa duruttāni,\nkhamati dukkhamāni ca.","en":"A friend gives what is hard to give,\nand does what’s hard to do.\nThey put up with your harsh words,\nand with things hard to endure."}},{"id":"an7.36:3","sourceIds":["an7.36:3.1","an7.36:3.2","an7.36:3.3","an7.36:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Guyhañca tassa akkhāti,\nguyhassa parigūhati;\nĀpadāsu na jahāti,\nkhīṇena nātimaññati.","en":"They tell you their secrets,\nand keep your secrets for you.\nThey don’t abandon you in times of trouble,\nor look down on you in times of loss."}},{"id":"an7.36:4","sourceIds":["an7.36:4.1","an7.36:4.2","an7.36:4.3","an7.36:4.4","an7.36:4.5"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Yamhi etāni ṭhānāni,\nsaṁvijjantīdha puggale;\nSo mitto mittakāmena,\nbhajitabbo tathāvidho”ti.\nPañcamaṁ.","en":"The individual in whom\nthese things are found is your friend.\nIf you want to have a friend,\nyou should keep company with that sort.”"}}]}],"sourceRevision":"afdafa92450cfe7573b280da50382888323666d2","sourceUrl":"https://suttacentral.net/an7.36/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."}