Then, late at night, the glorious godling Ugga, lighting up the entire Jeta’s Grove, went up to the Buddha, bowed, and stood to one side. The Buddha said to him, “Ugga, I trust it is all you wished?”
“Sir, it is indeed just as I wished.” Then the Buddha addressed Ugga in verse:
“The giver of the agreeable gets the agreeable,
the giver of the foremost gets the foremost,
the giver of the excellent gets the excellent,
the giver of the best gets the best.
A person who gives the foremost,
the excellent, the best:
they’re long-lived and famous
wherever they’re reborn.”
Numbered Discourses 5.45 5. With King Muṇḍa Overflowing Merit
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Mendicants, there are these five kinds of overflowing merit, overflowing goodness. They nurture happiness and are conducive to heaven, ripening in happiness and leading to heaven. They lead to what is likable, desirable, agreeable, to welfare and happiness.