[287] Bhikkhus, brahmins and householders are very helpful to you: it is they who attend upon you with robes, almsfood, lodging, and medicinal requisites for the sick. You too, bhikkhus, are very helpful to brahmins and householders, in that you teach them the Dhamma that is good in the beginning, good in the middle, and good in the end, and in that you proclaim the holy life (brahmacariya) with its meaning and its phrasing, entirely complete and pure. Thus, bhikkhus, this holy life is lived in dependence upon one another, for the sake of crossing over the flood (ogha), for rightly making an end of suffering (dukkha).
[Variant readings: 1. Po. and Yu. read *bahūpakārā*. 2. Ma. and Yu. read *vo*.]
Those dwelling at home and the homeless,
both dependent upon one another,
bring to success the true Dhamma (saddhamma),
the unsurpassed security from bondage (yogakkhema).
From those dwelling at home the homeless
receive robes, requisites,
and beds and seats,
dispelling thereby their hardships.
But relying upon the Sugata,
householders who live the home life,
placing faith in the arahants,
meditating with noble wisdom,
having practiced the Dhamma here —
the path (magga) leading to a good destination —
they rejoice, delighted, in the deva world,
enjoying the sensual pleasures they desire.
The Eighth.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.