Dutiyapiyasutta — Dhanavagga — the first chapter of the Sevens
Setting
None stated in the source
Speakers
The Buddha alone, addressing the mendicants
Form
Two matched seven-item lists, cause and its direct reversal, sharing five of seven items with AN 7.1
Length
under 1 minute to read
Northern parallel
The pairing of jealousy and stinginess as a joint obstacle to being liked recurs in related forms across the Chinese Āgamas; this reading guide does not assert a specific matching sutra number
Difficulty
★☆☆☆☆ — brief and formulaic, sharing most of its content with AN 7.1 immediately before it
Why this discourse
AN 7.2 repeats AN 7.1's first five items exactly — desiring material things, honor, and status, lacking conscience and prudence — but closes on a different pair: jealousy and stinginess, rather than corrupt wishes and wrong view. A reader who assumes this is simply AN 7.1 restated would be missing the one deliberate substitution that gives this discourse its own content.
Reading guide
The teaching in one sentence
A mendicant who desires material things, honor, and status, lacks conscience and prudence, and is jealous and stingy is disliked by their spiritual companions; the seven direct opposites make a mendicant liked.
Five items shared, two substituted
Checked term by term against AN 7.1, this discourse's first five items are identical. Only the sixth and seventh change: jealousy (issā) and stinginess (macchariya) replace AN 7.1's corrupt wishes and wrong view — the same 'shared frame, substituted closing pair' technique already met repeatedly across the Sixes, now carried into this new nipāta's very second discourse.
From doctrinal error to interpersonal fault
AN 7.1's closing pair concerned corrupt wishes and wrong view — internal distortions of desire and belief. This discourse's closing pair, jealousy and stinginess, concerns something more immediately social: how a mendicant relates to what others have, and what they themselves are willing to share.
A brief/elaborated pair itself, within Dhanavagga
AN 7.1 and 7.2 together form this chapter's own small pair of near-duplicate discourses, echoed by the two further near-duplicate pairs immediately following: AN 7.3/7.4 on the seven powers, and AN 7.5/7.6 on the seven kinds of wealth.
Key terms
lābhakāma, sakkārakāma, anavaññattikāma, ahirika, anottappa — the same first five items as AN 7.1: desiring material things, honor, and status, and lacking conscience and prudence.
issā — “jealousy” — the sixth item, replacing AN 7.1's corrupt wishes.
macchariya — “stinginess” — the seventh and closing item, replacing AN 7.1's wrong view.
anissuka, amaccharī — “not jealous, not stingy” — the reversal's sixth and seventh items.
piya — “pleasing, dear” — this discourse's shared title term with AN 7.1, the state its seven reversed qualities produce.
The text
The discourse in full: seven qualities that make a mendicant disliked, closing on jealousy and stinginess, and their reversal. Translation: Bhikkhu Sujato (CC0, SuttaCentral).
Seven qualities that make a mendicant disliked
§1“Mendicants, a mendicant with seven qualities is disliked and disapproved by their spiritual companions, not respected or admired. What seven? It’s when a mendicant desires material things, honor, and status. They lack conscience and prudence. They’re jealous and stingy. A mendicant with these seven qualities is disliked and disapproved by their spiritual companions, not respected or admired.
Seven qualities that make a mendicant liked
§2A mendicant with seven qualities is liked and approved by their spiritual companions, respected and admired. What seven? It’s when a mendicant doesn’t desire material things, honor, and status. They have conscience and prudence. They’re not jealous or stingy. A mendicant with these seven qualities is liked and approved by their spiritual companions, respected and admired.”
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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 7.1's, checked term by term?
Correct: B. The same shared-frame, substituted-closing-pair technique already established across the Sixes.
Question 2 of 6
What two items close this discourse's blocking list, replacing AN 7.1's corrupt wishes and wrong view?
Correct: B. A shift from doctrinal distortion to interpersonal fault.
Question 3 of 6
Is this discourse a repeat of AN 7.1, according to the guide?
Correct: B. A deliberate substitution, not an accidental duplicate.
Question 4 of 6
What further near-duplicate pairs does this chapter contain, according to the guide?
Correct: B. A chapter built partly from brief/elaborated or near-duplicate discourse pairs.
Question 5 of 6
Is a setting stated for AN 7.2?
Correct: B. A bare formula, unlike AN 7.1's full narrative opening.
Question 6 of 6
What does macchariya mean?
Correct: B. The seventh and closing item on this discourse's blocking list.
