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THE UTOPIA AND THE UTOPIAN*
-N.M. Tatia & Muni Mahendra Kumar
The Ideal Monk
The virtues of the ideal monk constitute the Utopia. These virtues are contained in the Uttarajjhayanani, XV, and the Dasaveyaliyam, X, under the common caption Sa-Bhikkhû. We give here a versified English rendering of the two chapters, each English verse being preceded by its Prakrit original. The contents of these two chapters are comaparable to those of the Bhikkhuvagga of the Pali dhammapada.
Sa-Bhikkhuyam
(Uttarajjhayanani, XV) 1. monam carissàmi samecca dhammam
Sahiè ujiu-kadè niyàna-chinne Samthavam jahejja akama-kame
Annaesi parivuae, sa bhikkhu. A monk's life shall I lead, perceiving the truth,
Wishing well, upright, tearing off intents deep; Abandoning acquaintance, longing not for objects
sensual, Who begs from families strange, be is indeed the ideal
monk. • 2.
râovarayam carejja lâdhe
virae veyaviyaya-rakkhie <ya>, panne abhibhu ya sauva-damsi
je kamhim ci na mucchie, sa bhikkhu.
* Today and tomorrow's printers and Publishers, New Delhi, 1981.
