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1.47. Planters of Groves

ā€œFor whom does merit always increase,
Both by day and by night?
Who are the people going to heaven,
Established in Dhamma, endowed with virtue?ā€

ā€œThose who set up a park or a grove,
The people who construct a bridge,
A place to drink and a well,
Those who give a residence:

ā€œFor them merit always increases,
Both by day and by night;
Those are the people going to heaven,
Established in Dhamma, endowed with virtue.ā€