Nāga Sutta4
SuttaA discourse listing four qualities required of a royal elephant — being a good listener, slayer, endurer and traveller — as an analogy for the qualities that make a monk worthy of the world’s respect and offerings.
An elephant, to be fit for the royal stalls, should have four qualities: he should be a good listener (sotā), a good slayer (hantā), full of patience (khantā), and a good goer (gantā). A monk should have the four corresponding qualities to be fit to receive the respects and gifts of the world (A.ii.116 f)
AN 4.114
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