1"Bhikkhus, there are two persons that cannot easily be repaid. What two? One's mother and father.

"Even if one should carry about one's mother on one shoulder and one's father on the other, and while doing so should have a life span of a hundred years, live for a hundred years; and if one should attend to them by anointing them with balms, by massaging, bathing, and rubbing their limbs, and they even void their urine and excrement there, one still would not have done enough for one's parents, nor would one have repaid them.

Even if one were to establish one's parents as the supreme lords and rulers over this great earth abounding in the seven treasures, one still would not have done enough for one's parents, nor would one have repaid them.

For what reason? Parents are of great help to their children; they bring them up, feed them, and show them the world.

"But, bhikkhus, if, when one's parents lack faith, one encourages, settles, and establishes them in faith;

if, when one's parents are immoral, one encourages, settles, and establishes them in virtuous behavior;

if, when one's parents are miserly, one encourages, settles, and establishes them in generosity;

if, when one's parents are unwise, one encourages, settles, and establishes them in wisdom:

in such a way, one has done enough for one's parents, repaid them, and done more than enough for them." [n.252] I read with Ce and Ee katañca hoti patikatañca atikatañcā ti. Be ends at patikatañcā ti.

1"Dvinnāhaṁ, bhikkhave, na suppatikāraṁ vadāmi. Katamesaṁ dvinnaṁ? Mātu ca pitu ca.

Ekena, bhikkhave, aṁsena mātaraṁ parihareyya, ekena aṁsena pitaraṁ parihareyya vassasatāyuko vassasatajīvī so ca nesaṁ ucchādanaparimaddananhāpanasambāhanena. Te ca tattheva muttakarīsaṁ cajeyyuṁ, na tveva, bhikkhave, mātāpitūnaṁ kataṁ vā hoti paṭikataṁ vā.

Imissā ca, bhikkhave, mahāpathaviyā pahūtarattaratanāya mātāpitaro issarādhipacce rajje patiṭṭhāpeyya, na tveva, bhikkhave, mātāpitūnaṁ kataṁ vā hoti paṭikataṁ vā.

Taṁ kissa hetu? Bahukārā, bhikkhave, mātāpitaro puttānaṁ āpādakā posakā imassa lokassa dassetāro.

Yo ca kho, bhikkhave, mātāpitaro assaddhe saddhāsampadāya samādapeti niveseti patiṭṭhāpeti,

dussīle sīlasampadāya samādapeti niveseti patiṭṭhāpeti,

maccharī cāgasampadāya samādapeti niveseti patiṭṭhāpeti,

duppaññe paññāsampadāya samādapeti niveseti patiṭṭhāpeti,

ettāvatā kho, bhikkhave, mātāpitūnaṁ katañca hoti paṭikatañcā"ti.