Macchariyasutta — Dhanavagga — the first chapter of the Sevens
Setting
None stated in the source
Speakers
The Buddha alone, addressing the mendicants
Form
A single seven-item list, sharing five items with AN 7.8 but closing on two substituted items — closing this chapter
Length
under 30 seconds to read
Northern parallel
The pairing of jealousy and stinginess as a joint fetter recurs in related forms across the Chinese Āgamas; this reading guide does not assert a specific matching sutra number
Difficulty
★☆☆☆☆ — brief, closing this chapter with a now-familiar substitution technique
Why this discourse
AN 7.10 closes this chapter by repeating AN 7.8's first five fetters exactly — attraction, aversion, views, doubt, conceit — but substituting jealousy and stinginess for that discourse's desire for continued existence and ignorance, the same shared-frame, substituted-closing-pair technique already met repeatedly across the Sixes and, within this very chapter, at AN 7.1/7.2.
Reading guide
The teaching in one sentence
There are seven fetters: attraction, aversion, views, doubt, conceit, jealousy, and stinginess.
Five items shared, two substituted, again
Checked term by term against AN 7.8, this discourse's first five items are identical. Only the sixth and seventh change: issā (jealousy) and macchariya (stinginess, this discourse's own title term) replace bhavarāga (desire for continued existence) and avijjā (ignorance).
The same substituted pair as AN 7.2, on different first five items
Jealousy and stinginess already closed AN 7.2's blocking list, substituted there for corrupt wishes and wrong view against a different first five items concerning material desire and conscience. Here the same substituted pair closes a list concerning attraction, aversion, views, doubt, and conceit instead — the identical closing substitution reused against a different base list within the same chapter.
A chapter closing on the theme it opened with
This chapter opened at AN 7.1 with jealousy and stinginess's near-relatives (corrupt wishes, wrong view) as one closing pair among several possibilities, and closes here with jealousy and stinginess themselves — the exact pair AN 7.2 already used — now applied to the fetters rather than to what makes a mendicant liked or disliked.
Key terms
anurodha, virodha, diṭṭhi, vicikicchā, māna — the first five fetters, identical to AN 7.8: attraction, aversion, views, doubt, conceit.
issā — “jealousy” — the sixth item, replacing AN 7.8's desire for continued existence, and identical to AN 7.2's own sixth item.
macchariya — “stinginess” — the seventh and closing item, this discourse's own title term, replacing AN 7.8's ignorance.
bhavarāga, avijjā — “desire for continued existence, ignorance” — AN 7.8's original sixth and seventh items, absent from this discourse's version.
saṁyojana — “fetter” — the shared term across all three discourses of this chapter's fetters family, AN 7.8–10.
The text
The discourse in full: seven fetters, closing on jealousy and stinginess. Translation: Bhikkhu Sujato (CC0, SuttaCentral).
The seven fetters
§1“Mendicants, there are these seven fetters. What seven? The fetters of attraction, aversion, views, doubt, conceit, jealousy, and stinginess. These are the seven fetters.”
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Self-check quiz
6 questions. Click an answer to see immediate feedback. No score is recorded — this is for your own checking.
Question 1 of 6
How many of this discourse's seven items are identical to AN 7.8's, checked term by term?
Correct: B. The same substitution technique already met repeatedly across this series.
Question 2 of 6
What two items replace AN 7.8's desire for continued existence and ignorance?
Correct: B. This discourse's own title term, stinginess, closes the substituted pair.
Question 3 of 6
Where else in this same chapter has this exact substituted pair, jealousy and stinginess, already appeared?
Correct: B. The identical closing substitution reused against a different base list within one chapter.
Question 4 of 6
How does the guide describe this chapter's overall arc, from AN 7.1 to this closing discourse?
Correct: B. A closing echo of themes already introduced earlier in the chapter.
Question 5 of 6
Is a setting stated for AN 7.10?
Correct: B. A bare formula, closing this chapter's fetters family and Dhanavagga itself.
Question 6 of 6
What connects AN 7.9 and AN 7.10, both following AN 7.8?
Correct: B. Two different treatments completing a three-discourse family opened at AN 7.8.
