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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PÂRÂYANAVAGGA.
further shore, and therefore this order of Dhamma was called 'the way to the other shore.'
1, 2. Agita, Tissametteyya, Punnaka and Mettaga, Dhotaka and Upasiva, Nanda and Hemaka, the two Todeyya and Kappa, and the wise Gatukannin, Bhadrâvudha and Udaya, and also the Brâhmana Posâla, and the wise Mogharâgan, and Pingiya the great Isi,
(1123, 1124) 3. These went up to Buddha, the Isi of exemplary conduct; asking subtle questions they went up to the supreme Buddha.
(1125) 4. Buddha, being asked, responded to their questions truly, and in responding to the questions the Muni delighted the Brâhmanas.
(1126) 5. They, having been delighted by the clearlyseeing Buddha, the kinsman of the Ådikkas, devoted themselves to a religious life near the man of excellent understanding.
. (1127) 6. He who lived according to what had been taught by Buddha (in answer) to each single question, went from this shore to the other shore. (1128)
7. From this shore he went to the other shore entering upon the most excellent way; this way is to lead to the other shore, therefore it is called the way to the other shore.
(1129)
8. ‘I will proclaim accordingly the way to the further shore,'-so said the venerable Pingiya ;-'as he saw it, so he told it; the spotless, the very wise, the passionless, the desireless lord, for what reason should he speak falsely ?
(1130) 9. 'Well! I will praise the beautiful voice of (Buddha), who is without stain and folly, and who has left behind arrogance and hypocrisy. (1131) 10. 'The darkness-dispelling Buddha, the all
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