'streams of merit'.

It is said that one produces 4 streams of merit by offering the 4 requisites

• robes,

• alms food,

• dwelling,

• medicine

to a monk who has reached the condition less deliverance of mind;

further by being filled with

• unshakable faith in the Buddha,

• his doctrine

• and community of disciples,

• and by being perfect in morality

(A.IV.51.52).

A.VIII.39 describes 4 further streams of merit.