Dighanikaya 26.80_10

26.80_10

Kusalānanti anavajjalakkhaṇānaṃ. Samādānahetūti samādāya vattanahetu. Evamidaṃ puññaṃ pavaḍḍhatīti evaṃ idaṃ lokiyalokuttaraṃ puññaphalaṃ vaḍḍhati, puññaphalanti ca uparūpari puññampi puññavipākopi veditabbo.

‘Of wholesome states’ (kusalānaṃ) means of those having the characteristic of faultlessness. ‘Due to undertaking’ (samādānahetu) means due to living having undertaken [them]. ‘Thus this merit increases’ (evamidaṃ puññaṃ pavaḍḍhati) means in this way this mundane and supramundane fruit of merit increases; and as ‘fruit of merit’ one should understand both ever higher merit and the result of merit.