{"id":"iti60","title":"Grounds for Making Merit","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"iti60","title":"Grounds for Making Merit","units":[{"id":"iti60:0","sourceIds":["iti60:0.1","iti60:0.2","iti60:0.3","iti60:0.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Itivuttaka 60\nTikanipāta\nDutiyavagga\nPuññakiriyavatthusutta","en":"So It Was Said 60\nThe Book of the Threes\nChapter Two\nGrounds for Making Merit"}},{"id":"iti60:1","sourceIds":["iti60:1.1"],"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":"iti60:2","sourceIds":["iti60:2.1","iti60:2.2","iti60:2.3","iti60:2.4","iti60:2.5","iti60:2.6"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Tīṇimāni, bhikkhave, puññakiriyavatthūni.\nKatamāni tīṇi?\nDānamayaṁ puññakiriyavatthu, sīlamayaṁ puññakiriyavatthu, bhāvanāmayaṁ puññakiriyavatthu—\nimāni kho, bhikkhave, tīṇi puññakiriyavatthūnī”ti.\nEtamatthaṁ bhagavā avoca.\nTatthetaṁ iti vuccati:","en":"“Mendicants, there are these three grounds for making merit.\nWhat three?\nGiving, ethical conduct, and meditation are all grounds for making merit.\nThese are the three grounds for making merit.”\nThe Buddha spoke this matter.\nOn this it is said:"}},{"id":"iti60:3","sourceIds":["iti60:3.1","iti60:3.2","iti60:3.3","iti60:3.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"“Puññameva so sikkheyya,\nāyataggaṁ sukhudrayaṁ;\nDānañca samacariyañca,\nmettacittañca bhāvaye.","en":"“One should practice only good deeds,\nwhose happy outcome stretches ahead.\nGiving and moral conduct,\ndeveloping a mind of love:"}},{"id":"iti60:4","sourceIds":["iti60:4.1","iti60:4.2","iti60:4.3","iti60:4.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ete dhamme bhāvayitvā,\ntayo sukhasamuddaye;\nAbyābajjhaṁ sukhaṁ lokaṁ,\npaṇḍito upapajjatī”ti.","en":"having developed these\nthree things yielding happiness,\nthat astute one is reborn\nin a happy, pleasing world.”"}},{"id":"iti60:5","sourceIds":["iti60:5.1","iti60:5.2"],"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/iti60/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."}