{"collection":"Anguttara Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_an8.33/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_an8.33","id":"suttacentral_an8.33","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/an8.33/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Anguttara Nikaya","Early Buddhist Texts"],"text":"\u201cMendicants, there are these eight grounds for giving. What eight? Someone might give a gift out of favoritism or hostility or stupidity or cowardice. Or they give thinking, \u2018Giving was practiced by my father and my father\u2019s father. It would not be right for me to abandon this traditional family custom.\u2019 Or they give thinking, \u2018After I\u2019ve given this gift, when my body breaks up, after death, I\u2019ll be reborn in a good place, a heavenly realm.\u2019 Or they give thinking, \u2018When giving this gift my mind becomes clear, and I become happy and joyful.\u2019 Or they give a gift thinking, \u2018This is an adornment and requisite for the mind.\u2019 These are the eight grounds for giving.\u201d","title":"Reasons to Give","tradition":"Anguttara Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":117}