How Giving Helps to Become Womb-Born, Etc.

Jalābujadānūpakārasutta

How Giving Helps to Become Womb-Born, Etc.

Jalābujadānūpakārasutta

EN
At Sāvatthī. Seated to one side, that mendicant said to the Buddha: “Sir, what is the cause, what is the reason why someone, when their body breaks up, after death, is reborn in the company of the womb-born phoenixes … moisture-born phoenixes …
PL
Sāvatthinidānaṁ. Ekamantaṁ nisinno kho so bhikkhu bhagavantaṁ etadavoca: “ko nu kho, bhante, hetu, ko paccayo, yena midhekacco kāyassa bhedā paraṁ maraṇā jalābujānaṁ supaṇṇānaṁ …pe… saṁsedajānaṁ supaṇṇānaṁ …pe…
EN
or spontaneously-born phoenixes?”
PL
opapātikānaṁ supaṇṇānaṁ sahabyataṁ upapajjatī”ti? “Idha, bhikkhu, ekacco kāyena dvayakārī hoti, vācāya dvayakārī, manasā dvayakārī. Tassa sutaṁ hoti: ‘opapātikā supaṇṇā dīghāyukā vaṇṇavanto sukhabahulā’ti.
PL
Tassa evaṁ hoti: ‘aho vatāhaṁ kāyassa bhedā paraṁ maraṇā opapātikānaṁ supaṇṇānaṁ sahabyataṁ upapajjeyyan’ti. So annaṁ deti …pe… pānaṁ deti …pe…
PL
padīpeyyaṁ deti. So kāyassa bhedā paraṁ maraṇā opapātikānaṁ supaṇṇānaṁ sahabyataṁ upapajjati. Ayaṁ kho, bhikkhu, hetu, ayaṁ paccayo, yena midhekacco kāyassa bhedā paraṁ maraṇā opapātikānaṁ supaṇṇānaṁ sahabyataṁ upapajjatī”ti. Chacattālīsamaṁ.
EN
(Tell all in full.)
PL
(Evaṁ piṇḍakena chacattālīsaṁ suttantā honti.) Supaṇṇavaggo paṭhamo. Tassuddānaṁ Suddhikaṁ haranti ceva,
EN
The Linked Discourses on phoenixes are complete.
PL
dvayakārī ca caturo; Dānūpakārā tālīsaṁ, supaṇṇe suppakāsitāti. Supaṇṇasaṁyuttaṁ samattaṁ.

Pāli root text and English translation by Bhikkhu Sujato from SuttaCentral (https://suttacentral.net), CC0.

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