{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an5.37/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an5.37","id":"suttacentral_an5.37","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an5.37/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"\u201cMendicants, when a giver gives food, they give the recipients five things. What five? Long life, beauty, happiness, strength, and eloquence. Giving long life, they have long life as a god or human. Giving beauty, they have beauty as a god or human. Giving happiness, they have happiness as a god or human. Giving strength, they have strength as a god or human. Giving eloquence, they are eloquent as a god or human. When a giver gives food, they give the recipients five things. Being attentive, one is a giver of life, strength, beauty, and eloquence. An intelligent giver of happiness gains happiness in return. Giving life, strength, beauty, happiness, and eloquence, they\u2019re long-lived and famous wherever they\u2019re reborn.\u201d","title":"Food","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":119}