Dhammapada

SR No.: 007674
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Max Muller
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1881
Total Pages: 2540
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 45 MB

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XXIX, 21.
GIFTS.
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14. He who gives a house obtains a town. 15. He who gives a pair of shoes obtains a vehicle.
16. Now they quote also (the following verses): Whatever sin a man distressed for livelihood commits, (from that) he is purified by giving land, (be it) even “a bull's hide."
17. “He who gives to a Brâhmana a vessel filled with water for sipping, will obtain after death complete freedom from thirst and be born again as a drinker of Soma.'
18. If a gift of one thousand oxen fit to draw a carriage (has been bestowed) according to the rule on a perfectly worthy man, that is equal to giving a maiden.
19. “They declare that cows, land, and learning are the three most excellent gifts. For to give learning is (to bestow) the greatest of all gifts, and it surpasses those (other gifts).'
20. 'A learned man who, free from envy, follows this rule of conduct which procures endless rewards, and which through final liberation frees him from transmigration ;' .
21. Or who, full of faith, pure, and subduing his
14. Vishnu XCII, 31.
15. Vishnu XCII, 28. 16. Vishnu XCII, 4. Krishnapandita quotes a passage of the Matsya-purâna according to which a bull's hide' is a measure equal to 140 square hastas; see, however, notes to Vishnu loc. cit. and V, 183.
17. Manu IV, 229. 18. Read in the text vidhivaddanam kanyâdânena tatsamam. 19. Krishnapandita wrongly makes two Satras out of this verse.
20. Krishnapandita and MS. B. read, against the metre and sense, yoginam sampûritam vidvân, another reading yoginâm sammatam vidvân. F. reads yonasamyurimam vidvan. I read yo'nasûyurimam vidvân.
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