{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an4.58/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an4.58","id":"suttacentral_an4.58","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an4.58/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"Then the householder An\u0101thapi\u1e47\u1e0dika went up to the Buddha, bowed, and sat down to one side. The Buddha said to him: \u201cHouseholder, when a noble disciple gives food, they give the recipients four things. What four? Long life, beauty, happiness, and strength. Giving long life, they have long life as a god or human. \u2026 Giving beauty \u2026 happiness \u2026 strength \u2026 When a noble disciple gives food, they give the recipients these four things. Carefully giving food at the right time, to those who are disciplined, <j>eating only what others give, you provide them with four things: long life, beauty, happiness, and strength. A person who gives long life, beauty, happiness, and strength, has long life and fame wherever they\u2019re reborn.\u201d","title":"Sudatta","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":122}