It would be better to cultivate thoughts of love (mettā) at morning, noon and eventide, than to give a morning gift of one hundred ukkhās and the same at noon and in the evening (S.ii.264).

The Commentary explains ukkhā as being a large pot with a large mouth (mahā-mukha-ukkhalī); SA.ii.164.


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