Collections of Numbered Discourses
Collections of 'numbered' or 'numerical' discourses and other related texts.
Eight ways of giving a gift.
This verse on qualities of a good person appears to be a fragment of text, perhaps originally part of the previous sutta.
Eight grounds for giving.
The rewards of giving are compared to fields of different qualities.
When giving, if you expect a certain result in the next life, you can get it, if the conditions are right.
The good deeds of giving, ethics, and meditation lead to good rebirths, depending on the level to which they are developed.
A good person gives gifts in eight ways.
When a good person is born, it benefits eight kinds of people, like a rain-cloud showering all over the land.
Eight streams of merit, consisting in going for refuge and five kinds of gifts.
Eight kinds of misdeed are conducive to bad outcomes.
