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9. Jaba rayaņakbaniin patto mahaggliamolláim mottu rayaudim;
Genhai vaŋŋaudhāim aimūdbo kāyakhandāim. 10. Taha pattd maņuyatta saggapavaggai sokkba sanjaņage;
Na karanti dhawmatattim visad sèvanti mūdhappā. 11. Jo visayasuhapasatto laddhum maņuyatta maisār..aggim;
Na kuņai dhammam kāganisahassahāragasariccho so, 12. Evam nâum tumhe jāva na vābividambhaè dèham;
Jāva na jarā na maccũ, appahiyam tāva cintèha. 13. Sammattam padivajjaha kardha sãvajja-joga-veramanam;
Nijjiņaha kasāyarivū danďattiyaniggahan kumaha. 14. Miccbaddamsana avirai kasāyamāņamãi-duttha-jogè him;
Jivo bandhai kampièņa ya bhamai samsāre.
Trans --1-2. In tbis world, these four excellent acquisitions are hard to obtain viz. 1. Human existence, 2. A love of hearing traditional religious precept, 3. A sincere longing after Dharma, and 4. A desire of training manly vigour in the practice of penance and control over senses Realizing this, wise persons indifferent to worldly attachment, should very seriously endeavour to exert themselves in religious duties.
3. For those who are afflicted with many miserios and for those who have been subjected to the influence of death and dependence on others, there is nothing else affording shelter, except Dharma.
4. The sons torment him, the kinsmen torment him, his well-accumulated wealth torments lim; only the duly-adored Dharma docs not torment huis.
5-6. Bewildered with delusion about kinsmen and others and having acquired immense wealth, property, by great enterprises, he alone is born in the next world, and he alone, decidedly suffers agonies. Just as there is no core in a plantain trce, just as there is no (extraction of) oil while pounding sand, just as there is no water in a mirage, in the same manner, there is no happiness in this world,
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