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DHAMMAPADA.
CHAP. X.
the whip, be ye active and lively, and by faith, by virtue, by energy, by meditation, by discernment of the law you will overcome this great pain (of reproof), perfect in knowledge and in behaviour, and never forgetful.
145. Well-makers lead the water (wherever they like); fletchers bend the arrow ; carpenters bend a log of wood; good people fashion themselves.
should be borne, my translation would be right, though alpabodhati in the sense of parvi facere is strange.
145. The same as verse 80. According to Fausböll and Subhâti we ought to render the verses by, What man is there found on earth so restrained by shame that he never provokes reproof, as a good horse the whip?' See Childers, s. v. appabodhati.
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