A Meal Assigner

Bhattuddesakasutta

A Meal Assigner

Bhattuddesakasutta

EN
“Mendicants, a meal assigner who has four qualities is placed in hell as if delivered there. What four? They make decisions prejudiced by favoritism, hostility, stupidity, and cowardice. A meal assigner who has these four qualities is placed in hell as if delivered there.
PL
“Catūhi, bhikkhave, dhammehi samannāgato bhattuddesako yathābhataṁ nikkhitto evaṁ niraye. Katamehi catūhi? Chandāgatiṁ gacchati, dosāgatiṁ gacchati, mohāgatiṁ gacchati, bhayāgatiṁ gacchati— imehi kho, bhikkhave, catūhi dhammehi samannāgato bhattuddesako yathābhataṁ nikkhitto evaṁ niraye.
EN
A meal designator who has four qualities is placed in heaven as if delivered there. What four? They make decisions unprejudiced by favoritism, hostility, stupidity, and cowardice. A meal assigner who has these four qualities is placed in heaven as if delivered there.
PL
Catūhi, bhikkhave, dhammehi samannāgato bhattuddesako yathābhataṁ nikkhitto evaṁ sagge. Katamehi catūhi? Na chandāgatiṁ gacchati, na dosāgatiṁ gacchati, na mohāgatiṁ gacchati, na bhayāgatiṁ gacchati— imehi kho, bhikkhave, catūhi dhammehi samannāgato bhattuddesako yathābhataṁ nikkhitto evaṁ saggeti.
EN
All those people with unbridled sensuality, unprincipled, with no respect for principle, led astray <j>by favoritism, hostility, stupidity, or cowardice, are called ‘an assembly of the dregs’:
PL
Ye keci kāmesu asaññatā janā, Adhammikā honti adhammagāravā; Chandā dosā mohā ca bhayā gāmino, Parisākasaṭo ca panesa vuccati.
EN
that’s what was said by the ascetic who knows. And so those praiseworthy true persons, standing on principle, doing nothing wrong, not led astray <j>by favoritism, hostility, stupidity, or cowardice,
PL
Evañhi vuttaṁ samaṇena jānatā, Tasmā hi te sappurisā pasaṁsiyā; Dhamme ṭhitā ye na karonti pāpakaṁ, Na chandā na dosā na mohā na bhayā ca gāmino;
EN
are called ‘an assembly of the cream’: that’s what was said by the ascetic who knows.”
PL
Parisāya maṇḍo ca panesa vuccati, Evañhi vuttaṁ samaṇena jānatā”ti. Dasamaṁ. Caravaggo dutiyo.
PL
Tassuddānaṁ Caraṁ sīlaṁ padhānāni, saṁvaraṁ paññatti pañcamaṁ; Sokhummaṁ tayo agatī,
PL
bhattuddesena te dasāti.

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

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