နမော တဿ ဘဂဝတော အရဟတော သမ္မာသမ္ဗုဒ္ဓဿ

Homage to that Blessed One, the Worthy One, the Perfectly Enlightened One.

ခုဒ္ဒကနိကာယေ

The Khuddaka Nikāya

ဓမ္မပဒပါဠိ

The Dhammapada

၁. ယမကဝဂ္ဂေါ

1. The Twin Verses

၁.

1.

မနောပုဗ္ဗင်္ဂမာ [Pg.13] ဓမ္မာ, မနောသေဋ္ဌာ မနောမယာ;

မနသာ စေ ပဒုဋ္ဌေန, ဘာသတိ ဝါ ကရောတိ ဝါ;

တတော နံ ဒုက္ခမနွေတိ, စက္ကံဝ ဝဟတော ပဒံ.

Mind precedes all mental states. Mind is their chief; they are mind-wrought. If with a corrupt mind one speaks or acts, suffering follows one like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox.

၂.

2.

မနောပုဗ္ဗင်္ဂမာ ဓမ္မာ, မနောသေဋ္ဌာ မနောမယာ;

မနသာ စေ ပသန္နေန, ဘာသတိ ဝါ ကရောတိ ဝါ;

တတော နံ သုခမနွေတိ, ဆာယာဝ အနပါယိနီ.

Mind precedes all mental states. Mind is their chief; they are mind-wrought. If with a pure mind one speaks or acts, happiness follows one like a shadow that never departs.

၃.

3.

အက္ကောစ္ဆိ မံ အဝဓိ မံ, အဇိနိ မံ အဟာသိ မေ;

ယေ စ တံ ဥပနယှန္တိ, ဝေရံ တေသံ န သမ္မတိ.

“He abused me, he struck me, he overcame me, he robbed me”—in those who harbor such thoughts, hatred is not appeased.

၄.

4.

အက္ကောစ္ဆိ မံ အဝဓိ မံ, အဇိနိ မံ အဟာသိ မေ;

ယေ စ တံ နုပနယှန္တိ, ဝေရံ တေသူပသမ္မတိ.

“He abused me, he struck me, he overcame me, he robbed me”—in those who do not harbor such thoughts, hatred is appeased.

၅.

5.

န [Pg.14] ဟိ ဝေရေန ဝေရာနိ, သမ္မန္တီဓ ကုဒါစနံ;

အဝေရေန စ သမ္မန္တိ, ဧသ ဓမ္မော သနန္တနော.

Hatreds never cease by hatred in this world; by non-hatred alone do they cease. This is an eternal law.

၆.

6.

ပရေ စ န ဝိဇာနန္တိ, မယမေတ္ထ ယမာမသေ;

ယေ စ တတ္ထ ဝိဇာနန္တိ, တတော သမ္မန္တိ မေဓဂါ.

Others do not realize that we must all come to an end here; but those who do realize this have their quarrels calmed.

၇.

7.

သုဘာနုပဿိံ ဝိဟရန္တံ, ဣန္ဒြိယေသု အသံဝုတံ;

ဘောဇနမှိ စာမတ္တညုံ, ကုသီတံ ဟီနဝီရိယံ;

တံ ဝေ ပသဟတိ မာရော, ဝါတော ရုက္ခံဝ ဒုဗ္ဗလံ.

One who dwells contemplating the attractive, unrestrained in the senses, immoderate in eating, lazy, and lacking energy—Māra will certainly overpower, as the wind does a weak tree.

၈.

8.

အသုဘာနုပဿိံ ဝိဟရန္တံ, ဣန္ဒြိယေသု သုသံဝုတံ;

ဘောဇနမှိ စ မတ္တညုံ, သဒ္ဓံ အာရဒ္ဓဝီရိယံ;

တံ ဝေ နပ္ပသဟတိ မာရော, ဝါတော သေလံဝ ပဗ္ဗတံ.

One who dwells contemplating the unattractive, well-restrained in the senses, moderate in eating, faithful, and with aroused energy—Māra will certainly not overpower, as the wind does not a mountain of rock.

၉.

9.

အနိက္ကသာဝေါ ကာသာဝံ, ယော ဝတ္ထံ ပရိဒဟိဿတိ;

အပေတော ဒမသစ္စေန, န သော ကာသာဝမရဟတိ.

Whoever, while still defiled, without self-restraint and truthfulness, should wear the yellow robe, is unworthy of it.

၁၀.

10.

ယော စ ဝန္တကသာဝဿ, သီလေသု သုသမာဟိတော;

ဥပေတော ဒမသစ္စေန, သ ဝေ ကာသာဝမရဟတိ.

But one who has discarded defilements, is well-established in virtue, and is endowed with self-restraint and truth, is indeed worthy of the yellow robe.

၁၁.

11.

အသာရေ သာရမတိနော, သာရေ စာသာရဒဿိနော;

တေ သာရံ နာဓိဂစ္ဆန္တိ, မိစ္ဆာသင်္ကပ္ပဂေါစရာ.

Those who mistake the unessential for the essential and the essential for the unessential, dwelling in wrong thoughts, never arrive at the essential.

၁၂.

12.

သာရဉ္စ သာရတော ဉတွာ, အသာရဉ္စ အသာရတော;

တေ သာရံ အဓိဂစ္ဆန္တိ, သမ္မာသင်္ကပ္ပဂေါစရာ.

Those who know the essential as essential and the unessential as unessential, dwelling in right thought, do attain the essential.

၁၃.

13.

ယထာ အဂါရံ ဒုစ္ဆန္နံ, ဝုဋ္ဌီ သမတိဝိဇ္ဈတိ;

ဧဝံ အဘာဝိတံ စိတ္တံ, ရာဂေါ သမတိဝိဇ္ဈတိ.

Just as rain penetrates a poorly roofed house, so does lust penetrate an undeveloped mind.

၁၄.

14.

ယထာ [Pg.15] အဂါရံ သုဆန္နံ, ဝုဋ္ဌီ န သမတိဝိဇ္ဈတိ;

ဧဝံ သုဘာဝိတံ စိတ္တံ, ရာဂေါ န သမတိဝိဇ္ဈတိ.

Just as rain does not penetrate a well-roofed house, so lust does not penetrate a well-developed mind.

၁၅.

15.

ဣဓ သောစတိ ပေစ္စ သောစတိ, ပါပကာရီ ဥဘယတ္ထ သောစတိ;

သော သောစတိ သော ဝိဟညတိ, ဒိသွာ ကမ္မကိလိဋ္ဌမတ္တနော.

Here he sorrows, hereafter he sorrows; the evildoer sorrows in both states. He sorrows and is tormented, seeing his own defiled actions.

၁၆.

16.

ဣဓ မောဒတိ ပေစ္စ မောဒတိ, ကတပုညော ဥဘယတ္ထ မောဒတိ;

သော မောဒတိ သော ပမောဒတိ, ဒိသွာ ကမ္မဝိသုဒ္ဓိမတ္တနော.

Here he rejoices, hereafter he rejoices; the doer of merit rejoices in both states. He rejoices and is greatly delighted, seeing the purity of his own actions.

၁၇.

17.

ဣဓ တပ္ပတိ ပေစ္စ တပ္ပတိ, ပါပကာရီ ဥဘယတ္ထ တပ္ပတိ;

‘‘ပါပံ မေ ကတ’’န္တိ တပ္ပတိ, ဘိယျော တပ္ပတိ ဒုဂ္ဂတိံ ဂတော.

Here he is tormented, hereafter he is tormented; the evildoer is tormented in both states. He is tormented, thinking, “I have done evil.” He is tormented even more when gone to a state of woe.

၁၈.

18.

ဣဓ နန္ဒတိ ပေစ္စ နန္ဒတိ, ကတပုညော ဥဘယတ္ထ နန္ဒတိ;

‘‘ပုညံ မေ ကတ’’န္တိ နန္ဒတိ, ဘိယျော နန္ဒတိ သုဂ္ဂတိံ ဂတော.

Here he rejoices, hereafter he rejoices; the doer of merit rejoices in both states. He rejoices, thinking, “I have done merit,” and rejoices even more when gone to a good destination.

၁၉.

19.

ဗဟုမ္ပိ စေ သံဟိတ ဘာသမာနော, န တက္ကရော ဟောတိ နရော ပမတ္တော;

ဂေါပေါဝ [Pg.16] ဂါဝေါ ဂဏယံ ပရေသံ, န ဘာဂဝါ သာမညဿ ဟောတိ.

Though he recites many sacred texts, if he is heedless and does not act accordingly, he is like a cowherd who counts the cows of others: he has no share in the holy life.

၂၀.

20.

အပ္ပမ္ပိ စေ သံဟိတ ဘာသမာနော, ဓမ္မဿ ဟောတိ အနုဓမ္မစာရီ;

ရာဂဉ္စ ဒေါသဉ္စ ပဟာယ မောဟံ, သမ္မပ္ပဇာနော သုဝိမုတ္တစိတ္တော;

အနုပါဒိယာနော ဣဓ ဝါ ဟုရံ ဝါ, သ ဘာဂဝါ သာမညဿ ဟောတိ.

Though he recites but little of the sacred texts, if he lives in accordance with the Dhamma, having abandoned lust, hatred, and delusion, possessing right knowledge and a well-liberated mind, clinging to nothing in this world or the next—he is a partaker of the holy life.

ယမကဝဂ္ဂေါ ပဌမော နိဋ္ဌိတော.

The First Chapter, the Twin Verses, is concluded.

၂. အပ္ပမာဒဝဂ္ဂေါ

2. The Chapter on Heedfulness

၂၁.

21.

အပ္ပမာဒေါ အမတပဒံ, ပမာဒေါ မစ္စုနော ပဒံ;

အပ္ပမတ္တာ န မီယန္တိ, ယေ ပမတ္တာ ယထာ မတာ.

Heedfulness is the path to the Deathless; heedlessness is the path to death. The heedful do not die; the heedless are as if already dead.

၂၂.

22.

ဧဝံ ဝိသေသတော ဉတွာ, အပ္ပမာဒမှိ ပဏ္ဍိတာ;

အပ္ပမာဒေ ပမောဒန္တိ, အရိယာနံ ဂေါစရေ ရတာ.

Having understood this distinction, the wise rejoice in heedfulness, delighting in the domain of the Noble Ones.

၂၃.

23.

တေ ဈာယိနော သာတတိကာ, နိစ္စံ ဒဠှပရက္ကမာ;

ဖုသန္တိ ဓီရာ နိဗ္ဗာနံ, ယောဂက္ခေမံ အနုတ္တရံ.

Those wise ones, meditative and steadfast, constantly persevering, attain Nibbāna, the unsurpassed security from bondage.

၂၄.

24.

ဥဋ္ဌာနဝတော သတီမတော, သုစိကမ္မဿ နိသမ္မကာရိနော;

သညတဿ ဓမ္မဇီဝိနော, အပ္ပမတ္တဿ ယသောဘိဝဍ္ဎတိ.

For one who is energetic, mindful, pure in deed, considerate in action, self-restrained, righteous in living, and heedful—fame ever increases.

၂၅.

25.

ဥဋ္ဌာနေနပ္ပမာဒေန[Pg.17], သံယမေန ဒမေန စ;

ဒီပံ ကယိရာထ မေဓာဝီ, ယံ ဩဃော နာဘိကီရတိ.

By exertion, by heedfulness, by restraint and self-control, the wise one should make an island which no flood can overwhelm.

၂၆.

26.

ပမာဒမနုယုဉ္ဇန္တိ, ဗာလာ ဒုမ္မေဓိနော ဇနာ;

အပ္ပမာဒဉ္စ မေဓာဝီ, ဓနံ သေဋ္ဌံဝ ရက္ခတိ.

Fools, dull-witted people, indulge in heedlessness; but the wise one guards heedfulness as their supreme treasure.

၂၇.

27.

မာ ပမာဒမနုယုဉ္ဇေထ, မာ ကာမရတိသန္ထဝံ ;

အပ္ပမတ္တော ဟိ ဈာယန္တော, ပပ္ပောတိ ဝိပုလံ သုခံ.

Do not indulge in heedlessness, nor in intimacy with sensual pleasure. For the heedful one, meditating, attains abundant happiness.

၂၈.

28.

ပမာဒံ အပ္ပမာဒေန, ယဒါ နုဒတိ ပဏ္ဍိတော;

ပညာပါသာဒမာရုယှ, အသောကော သောကိနိံ ပဇံ;

ပဗ္ဗတဋ္ဌောဝ ဘူမဋ္ဌေ, ဓီရော ဗာလေ အဝေက္ခတိ.

When the wise one dispels heedlessness with heedfulness, having ascended the palace of wisdom, sorrowless, he surveys the sorrowing people. As one standing on a mountain beholds those on the ground, so the steadfast one beholds the fools.

၂၉.

29.

အပ္ပမတ္တော ပမတ္တေသု, သုတ္တေသု ဗဟုဇာဂရော;

အဗလဿံဝ သီဃဿော, ဟိတွာ ယာတိ သုမေဓသော.

Heedful among the heedless, wide-awake among the sleeping, the wise one advances like a swift horse, leaving a weak one behind.

၃၀.

30.

အပ္ပမာဒေန မဃဝါ, ဒေဝါနံ သေဋ္ဌတံ ဂတော;

အပ္ပမာဒံ ပသံသန္တိ, ပမာဒေါ ဂရဟိတော သဒါ.

By heedfulness, Maghavā attained supremacy among the gods. Heedfulness is praised; heedlessness is always censured.

၃၁.

31.

အပ္ပမာဒရတော ဘိက္ခု, ပမာဒေ ဘယဒဿိ ဝါ;

သံယောဇနံ အဏုံ ထူလံ, ဍဟံ အဂ္ဂီဝ ဂစ္ဆတိ.

A bhikkhu who delights in heedfulness, and sees danger in heedlessness, advances like a fire, burning fetters subtle and gross.

၃၂.

32.

အပ္ပမာဒရတော ဘိက္ခု, ပမာဒေ ဘယဒဿိ ဝါ;

အဘဗ္ဗော ပရိဟာနာယ, နိဗ္ဗာနဿေဝ သန္တိကေ.

A bhikkhu who delights in heedfulness, and sees danger in heedlessness, is incapable of falling away—he is in the very presence of Nibbāna.

အပ္ပမာဒဝဂ္ဂေါ ဒုတိယော နိဋ္ဌိတော.

The Chapter on Heedfulness, the Second, is concluded.

၃. စိတ္တဝဂ္ဂေါ

3. The Chapter on the Mind

၃၃.

33.

ဖန္ဒနံ [Pg.18] စပလံ စိတ္တံ, ဒူရက္ခံ ဒုန္နိဝါရယံ;

ဥဇုံ ကရောတိ မေဓာဝီ, ဥသုကာရောဝ တေဇနံ.

The mind is trembling and fickle, difficult to guard and restrain. The wise one straightens it, as a fletcher straightens an arrow-shaft.

၃၄.

34.

ဝါရိဇောဝ ထလေ ခိတ္တော, ဩကမောကတဥဗ္ဘတော;

ပရိဖန္ဒတိဒံ စိတ္တံ, မာရဓေယျံ ပဟာတဝေ.

Like a fish taken from its watery home and thrown on land, this mind flutters to escape the realm of Māra.

၃၅.

35.

ဒုန္နိဂ္ဂဟဿ လဟုနော, ယတ္ထကာမနိပါတိနော;

စိတ္တဿ ဒမထော သာဓု, စိတ္တံ ဒန္တံ သုခါဝဟံ.

The taming of the mind is good, for the mind is difficult to restrain, swift, and alights wherever it desires. A tamed mind brings happiness.

၃၆.

36.

သုဒုဒ္ဒသံ သုနိပုဏံ, ယတ္ထကာမနိပါတိနံ;

စိတ္တံ ရက္ခေထ မေဓာဝီ, စိတ္တံ ဂုတ္တံ သုခါဝဟံ.

The wise one should guard the mind, which is very difficult to perceive, extremely subtle, and alights wherever it desires. A guarded mind brings happiness.

၃၇.

37.

ဒူရင်္ဂမံ ဧကစရံ, အသရီရံ ဂုဟာသယံ;

ယေ စိတ္တံ သံယမေဿန္တိ, မောက္ခန္တိ မာရဗန္ဓနာ.

Wandering far, solitary, bodiless, dwelling in a cave is the mind. Those who restrain it will be freed from the bonds of Māra.

၃၈.

38.

အနဝဋ္ဌိတစိတ္တဿ, သဒ္ဓမ္မံ အဝိဇာနတော;

ပရိပ္လဝပသာဒဿ, ပညာ န ပရိပူရတိ.

For one of unsteady mind, who does not know the true Dhamma, and whose serenity is wavering, wisdom does not reach fulfillment.

၃၉.

39.

အနဝဿုတစိတ္တဿ, အနနွာဟတစေတသော;

ပုညပါပပဟီနဿ, နတ္ထိ ဇာဂရတော ဘယံ.

For one whose mind is not sodden with lust, whose heart is unassailed, who has gone beyond both merit and demerit—for such a vigilant one, there is no fear.

၄၀.

40.

ကုမ္ဘူပမံ ကာယမိမံ ဝိဒိတွာ, နဂရူပမံ စိတ္တမိဒံ ဌပေတွာ;

ယောဓေထ မာရံ ပညာဝုဓေန, ဇိတဉ္စ ရက္ခေ အနိဝေသနော သိယာ.

Knowing this body to be like a clay pot, and establishing this mind like a fortified city, one should fight Māra with the weapon of wisdom. One should guard what has been won and be without attachment.

၄၁.

41.

အစိရံ [Pg.19] ဝတယံ ကာယော, ပထဝိံ အဓိသေဿတိ;

ဆုဒ္ဓေါ အပေတဝိညာဏော, နိရတ္ထံဝ ကလိင်္ဂရံ.

Before long, alas, this body will lie upon the earth, cast aside, devoid of consciousness, like a useless log.

၄၂.

42.

ဒိသော ဒိသံ ယံ တံ ကယိရာ, ဝေရီ ဝါ ပန ဝေရိနံ;

မိစ္ဆာပဏိဟိတံ စိတ္တံ, ပါပိယော နံ တတော ကရေ.

Whatever an enemy may do to an enemy, or a foe to a foe, a wrongly directed mind can do one far greater harm.

၄၃.

43.

န တံ မာတာ ပိတာ ကယိရာ, အညေ ဝါပိ စ ဉာတကာ;

သမ္မာပဏိဟိတံ စိတ္တံ, သေယျသော နံ တတော ကရေ.

Neither mother, nor father, nor any other relative can do one as much good as a rightly directed mind.

စိတ္တဝဂ္ဂေါ တတိယော နိဋ္ဌိတော.

The Chapter on the Mind, the Third, is concluded.

၄. ပုပ္ဖဝဂ္ဂေါ

4. The Chapter on Flowers

၄၄.

44.

ကော ဣမံ ပထဝိံ ဝိစေဿတိ, ယမလောကဉ္စ ဣမံ သဒေဝကံ;

ကော ဓမ္မပဒံ သုဒေသိတံ, ကုသလော ပုပ္ဖမိဝ ပစေဿတိ.

Who will comprehend this earth, and this realm of Yama with its gods? Who will discern the well-taught path of Dhamma, as a skilled person picks a flower?

၄၅.

45.

သေခေါ ပထဝိံ ဝိစေဿတိ, ယမလောကဉ္စ ဣမံ သဒေဝကံ;

သေခေါ ဓမ္မပဒံ သုဒေသိတံ, ကုသလော ပုပ္ဖမိဝ ပစေဿတိ.

A disciple in training will comprehend this earth, and this realm of Yama with its gods. A disciple in training will discern the well-taught path of Dhamma, as a skilled person picks a flower.

၄၆.

46.

ဖေဏူပမံ [Pg.20] ကာယမိမံ ဝိဒိတွာ, မရီစိဓမ္မံ အဘိသမ္ဗုဓာနော;

ဆေတွာန မာရဿ ပပုပ္ဖကာနိ, အဒဿနံ မစ္စုရာဇဿ ဂစ္ဆေ.

Knowing this body to be like foam, and realizing its mirage-like nature, one should cut off Māra's flowery arrows and go beyond the sight of the King of Death.

၄၇.

47.

ပုပ္ဖာနိ ဟေဝ ပစိနန္တံ, ဗျာသတ္တမနသံ နရံ;

သုတ္တံ ဂါမံ မဟောဃောဝ, မစ္စု အာဒါယ ဂစ္ဆတိ.

Death carries off the person whose mind is attached, who is merely gathering flowers, just as a great flood sweeps away a sleeping village.

၄၈.

48.

ပုပ္ဖာနိ ဟေဝ ပစိနန္တံ, ဗျာသတ္တမနသံ နရံ;

အတိတ္တညေဝ ကာမေသု, အန္တကော ကုရုတေ ဝသံ.

The Ender brings under his control the person whose mind is attached, who is merely gathering flowers, and who remains unsatiated in sensual pleasures.

၄၉.

49.

ယထာပိ ဘမရော ပုပ္ဖံ, ဝဏ္ဏဂန္ဓမဟေဌယံ ;

ပလေတိ ရသမာဒါယ, ဧဝံ ဂါမေ မုနီ စရေ.

Just as a bee takes nectar and flies away without harming the flower, its color, or its fragrance, so should a sage wander in a village.

၅၀.

50.

န ပရေသံ ဝိလောမာနိ, န ပရေသံ ကတာကတံ;

အတ္တနောဝ အဝေက္ခေယျ, ကတာနိ အကတာနိ စ.

One should not consider the faults of others, nor what they have done or left undone. One should consider only one's own deeds, done and undone.

၅၁.

51.

ယထာပိ ရုစိရံ ပုပ္ဖံ, ဝဏ္ဏဝန္တံ အဂန္ဓကံ;

ဧဝံ သုဘာသိတာ ဝါစာ, အဖလာ ဟောတိ အကုဗ္ဗတော.

Just as a lovely flower, colorful but scentless, even so is the well-spoken word fruitless for one who does not act upon it.

၅၂.

52.

ယထာပိ ရုစိရံ ပုပ္ဖံ, ဝဏ္ဏဝန္တံ သုဂန္ဓကံ ;

ဧဝံ သုဘာသိတာ ဝါစာ, သဖလာ ဟောတိ ကုဗ္ဗတော.

Just as a lovely flower, colorful and fragrant, even so is the well-spoken word fruitful for one who acts upon it.

၅၃.

53.

ယထာပိ [Pg.21] ပုပ္ဖရာသိမှာ, ကယိရာ မာလာဂုဏေ ဗဟူ;

ဧဝံ ဇာတေန မစ္စေန, ကတ္တဗ္ဗံ ကုသလံ ဗဟုံ.

As from a heap of flowers many garlands can be made, so by one born a mortal much good should be done.

၅၄.

54.

န ပုပ္ဖဂန္ဓော ပဋိဝါတမေတိ, န စန္ဒနံ တဂရမလ္လိကာ ;

သတဉ္စ ဂန္ဓော ပဋိဝါတမေတိ, သဗ္ဗာ ဒိသာ သပ္ပုရိသော ပဝါယတိ.

The scent of flowers does not travel against the wind, nor that of sandalwood, tagara, or jasmine. But the fragrance of the virtuous travels against the wind; the good person pervades all directions.

၅၅.

55.

စန္ဒနံ တဂရံ ဝါပိ, ဥပ္ပလံ အထ ဝဿိကီ;

ဧတေသံ ဂန္ဓဇာတာနံ, သီလဂန္ဓော အနုတ္တရော.

Sandalwood, tagara, blue lotus, or jasmine—among these kinds of fragrance, the fragrance of virtue is unsurpassed.

၅၆.

56.

အပ္ပမတ္တော အယံ ဂန္ဓော, ယွာယံ တဂရစန္ဒနံ ;

ယော စ သီလဝတံ ဂန္ဓော, ဝါတိ ဒေဝေသု ဥတ္တမော.

Faint is this fragrance of tagara and sandalwood; but the fragrance of the virtuous, which is supreme, wafts even among the gods.

၅၇.

57.

တေသံ သမ္ပန္နသီလာနံ, အပ္ပမာဒဝိဟာရိနံ;

သမ္မဒညာ ဝိမုတ္တာနံ, မာရော မဂ္ဂံ န ဝိန္ဒတိ.

Of those accomplished in virtue, who dwell in heedfulness, and are liberated through perfect knowledge, Māra does not find the path.

၅၈.

58.

ယထာ သင်္ကာရဌာနသ္မိံ, ဥဇ္ဈိတသ္မိံ မဟာပထေ;

ပဒုမံ တတ္ထ ဇာယေထ, သုစိဂန္ဓံ မနောရမံ.

Just as on a heap of rubbish cast upon the highway, a lotus might grow, of pure fragrance and delightful,

၅၉.

59.

ဧဝံ သင်္ကာရဘူတေသု, အန္ဓဘူတေ ပုထုဇ္ဇနေ;

အတိရောစတိ ပညာယ, သမ္မာသမ္ဗုဒ္ဓသာဝကော.

Even so, among the rubbish-like, blind common folk, the disciple of the Perfectly Enlightened One outshines them with wisdom.

ပုပ္ဖဝဂ္ဂေါ စတုတ္ထော နိဋ္ဌိတော.

The Chapter on Flowers, the Fourth, is concluded.

၅. ဗာလဝဂ္ဂေါ

5. The Chapter on the Fool

၆၀.

60.

ဒီဃာ [Pg.22] ဇာဂရတော ရတ္တိ, ဒီဃံ သန္တဿ ယောဇနံ;

ဒီဃော ဗာလာနံ သံသာရော, သဒ္ဓမ္မံ အဝိဇာနတံ.

Long is the night for the wakeful; long is a league for the weary; long is saṃsāra for fools who do not know the true Dhamma.

၆၁.

61.

စရဉ္စေ နာဓိဂစ္ဆေယျ, သေယျံ သဒိသမတ္တနော;

ဧကစရိယံ ဒဠှံ ကယိရာ, နတ္ထိ ဗာလေ သဟာယတာ.

If, while wandering, one does not find another better than or equal to oneself, one should firmly pursue a solitary course; there is no companionship with a fool.

၆၂.

62.

ပုတ္တာ မတ္ထိ ဓနမ္မတ္ထိ, ဣတိ ဗာလော ဝိဟညတိ;

အတ္တာ ဟိ အတ္တနော နတ္ထိ, ကုတော ပုတ္တာ ကုတော ဓနံ.

“I have sons, I have wealth”—thus the fool is afflicted. One is not even the owner of oneself; how then sons? How then wealth?

၆၃.

63.

ယော ဗာလော မညတိ ဗာလျံ, ပဏ္ဍိတော ဝါပိ တေန သော;

ဗာလော စ ပဏ္ဍိတမာနီ, သ ဝေ ‘‘ဗာလော’’တိ ဝုစ္စတိ.

The fool who knows his foolishness is wise at least to that extent; but the fool who thinks himself wise is truly called a fool.

၆၄.

64.

ယာဝဇီဝမ္ပိ စေ ဗာလော, ပဏ္ဍိတံ ပယိရုပါသတိ;

န သော ဓမ္မံ ဝိဇာနာတိ, ဒဗ္ဗီ သူပရသံ ယထာ.

Even if a fool attends upon a wise person for his whole life, he does not understand the Dhamma, just as a ladle does not know the taste of the soup.

၆၅.

65.

မုဟုတ္တမပိ စေ ဝိညူ, ပဏ္ဍိတံ ပယိရုပါသတိ;

ခိပ္ပံ ဓမ္မံ ဝိဇာနာတိ, ဇိဝှာ သူပရသံ ယထာ.

If an intelligent person attends upon a wise person even for a moment, he quickly understands the Dhamma, just as the tongue knows the taste of the soup.

၆၆.

66.

စရန္တိ ဗာလာ ဒုမ္မေဓာ, အမိတ္တေနေဝ အတ္တနာ;

ကရောန္တာ ပါပကံ ကမ္မံ, ယံ ဟောတိ ကဋုကပ္ဖလံ.

Fools of little wisdom wander about with themselves as their own enemy, committing evil deeds that bear bitter fruit.

၆၇.

67.

န [Pg.23] တံ ကမ္မံ ကတံ သာဓု, ယံ ကတွာ အနုတပ္ပတိ;

ယဿ အဿုမုခေါ ရောဒံ, ဝိပါကံ ပဋိသေဝတိ.

That deed is not well done which, having been done, one regrets, and the result of which one reaps with a tearful face, weeping.

၆၈.

68.

တဉ္စ ကမ္မံ ကတံ သာဓု, ယံ ကတွာ နာနုတပ္ပတိ;

ယဿ ပတီတော သုမနော, ဝိပါကံ ပဋိသေဝတိ.

But that deed is well done which, having been done, one does not regret, and the result of which one reaps with a joyful and happy mind.

၆၉.

69.

မဓုဝါ မညတိ ဗာလော, ယာဝ ပါပံ န ပစ္စတိ;

ယဒါ စ ပစ္စတိ ပါပံ, ဗာလော ဒုက္ခံ နိဂစ္ဆတိ.

The fool thinks it is like honey, so long as the evil has not ripened; but when the evil ripens, the fool comes to suffering.

၇၀.

70.

မာသေ မာသေ ကုသဂ္ဂေန, ဗာလော ဘုဉ္ဇေယျ ဘောဇနံ;

န သော သင်္ခါတဓမ္မာနံ, ကလံ အဂ္ဃတိ သောဠသိံ.

Month after month, though a fool might eat his food with the tip of a kusa grass blade, he is not worth a sixteenth part of those who have fully understood the Dhamma.

၇၁.

71.

န ဟိ ပါပံ ကတံ ကမ္မံ, သဇ္ဇု ခီရံဝ မုစ္စတိ;

ဍဟန္တံ ဗာလမနွေတိ, ဘသ္မစ္ဆန္နောဝ ပါဝကော.

An evil deed that has been done does not curdle immediately, like milk; burning, it follows the fool, like a fire covered with ashes.

၇၂.

72.

ယာဝဒေဝ အနတ္ထာယ, ဉတ္တံ ဗာလဿ ဇာယတိ;

ဟန္တိ ဗာလဿ သုက္ကံသံ, မုဒ္ဓမဿ ဝိပါတယံ.

A fool's knowledge arises only for his own ruin; it destroys his bright share of merit and splits his head.

၇၃.

73.

အသန္တံ ဘာဝနမိစ္ဆေယျ, ပုရေက္ခာရဉ္စ ဘိက္ခုသု;

အာဝါသေသု စ ဣဿရိယံ, ပူဇာ ပရကုလေသု စ.

The fool would desire a reputation he does not deserve, precedence among bhikkhus, authority in the monasteries, and honors from other families.

၇၄.

74.

မမေဝ [Pg.24] ကတ မညန္တု, ဂိဟီပဗ္ဗဇိတာ ဥဘော;

မမေဝါတိဝသာ အဿု, ကိစ္စာကိစ္စေသု ကိသ္မိစိ;

ဣတိ ဗာလဿ သင်္ကပ္ပော, ဣစ္ဆာ မာနော စ ဝဍ္ဎတိ.

“Let both householders and the ordained think that this was done by me alone. Let them be subject to me alone in any matter, great or small.” Such is the fool's intention; his desire and conceit increase.

၇၅.

75.

အညာ ဟိ လာဘူပနိသာ, အညာ နိဗ္ဗာနဂါမိနီ;

ဧဝမေတံ အဘိညာယ, ဘိက္ခု ဗုဒ္ဓဿ သာဝကော;

သက္ကာရံ နာဘိနန္ဒေယျ, ဝိဝေကမနုဗြူဟယေ.

One is the path that leads to worldly gain, another is the path that leads to Nibbāna. Having understood this, the bhikkhu, the disciple of the Buddha, should not delight in honor, but should cultivate seclusion.

ဗာလဝဂ္ဂေါ ပဉ္စမော နိဋ္ဌိတော.

The Chapter on the Fool, the Fifth, is concluded.

၆. ပဏ္ဍိတဝဂ္ဂေါ

6. The Chapter on the Wise

၇၆.

76.

နိဓီနံဝ ပဝတ္တာရံ, ယံ ပဿေ ဝဇ္ဇဒဿိနံ;

နိဂ္ဂယှဝါဒိံ မေဓာဝိံ, တာဒိသံ ပဏ္ဍိတံ ဘဇေ;

တာဒိသံ ဘဇမာနဿ, သေယျော ဟောတိ န ပါပိယော.

Should one see an intelligent person who points out one's faults and speaks in rebuke, one should associate with such a wise person as one would with a revealer of hidden treasures. For one who associates with such a person, it is better, not worse.

၇၇.

77.

ဩဝဒေယျာနုသာသေယျ, အသဗ္ဘာ စ နိဝါရယေ;

သတဉှိ သော ပိယော ဟောတိ, အသတံ ဟောတိ အပ္ပိယော.

He should advise and instruct, and restrain from what is unseemly. Indeed, such a one is dear to the good, and disliked by the bad.

၇၈.

78.

န ဘဇေ ပါပကေ မိတ္တေ, န ဘဇေ ပုရိသာဓမေ;

ဘဇေထ မိတ္တေ ကလျာဏေ, ဘဇေထ ပုရိသုတ္တမေ.

Do not associate with evil friends; do not associate with base people. Associate with virtuous friends; associate with the supreme among men.

၇၉.

79.

ဓမ္မပီတိ သုခံ သေတိ, ဝိပ္ပသန္နေန စေတသာ;

အရိယပ္ပဝေဒိတေ ဓမ္မေ, သဒါ ရမတိ ပဏ္ဍိတော.

He who drinks of the Dhamma lives happily with a serene mind; the wise one ever delights in the Dhamma proclaimed by the Noble Ones.

၈၀.

80.

ဥဒကဉှိ [Pg.25] နယန္တိ နေတ္တိကာ, ဥသုကာရာ နမယန္တိ တေဇနံ;

ဒါရုံ နမယန္တိ တစ္ဆကာ, အတ္တာနံ ဒမယန္တိ ပဏ္ဍိတာ.

Irrigators guide the water, fletchers straighten the arrow-shaft, carpenters shape the wood; the wise tame themselves.

၈၁.

81.

သေလော ယထာ ဧကဃနော, ဝါတေန န သမီရတိ;

ဧဝံ နိန္ဒာပသံသာသု, န သမိဉ္ဇန္တိ ပဏ္ဍိတာ.

As a solid rock is not shaken by the wind, so the wise are not moved by blame or praise.

၈၂.

82.

ယထာပိ ရဟဒေါ ဂမ္ဘီရော, ဝိပ္ပသန္နော အနာဝိလော;

ဧဝံ ဓမ္မာနိ သုတွာန, ဝိပ္ပသီဒန္တိ ပဏ္ဍိတာ.

Like a deep lake, clear and still, so do the wise become serene upon hearing the teachings of the Dhamma.

၈၃.

83.

သဗ္ဗတ္ထ ဝေ သပ္ပုရိသာ စဇန္တိ, န ကာမကာမာ လပယန္တိ သန္တော;

သုခေန ဖုဋ္ဌာ အထ ဝါ ဒုခေန, န ဥစ္စာဝစံ ပဏ္ဍိတာ ဒဿယန္တိ.

The virtuous indeed renounce all things; the good do not prattle, yearning for sensual pleasures. Touched by pleasure or by pain, the wise show neither elation nor dejection.

၈၄.

84.

န အတ္တဟေတု န ပရဿ ဟေတု, န ပုတ္တမိစ္ဆေ န ဓနံ န ရဋ္ဌံ;

န ဣစ္ဆေယျ အဓမ္မေန သမိဒ္ဓိမတ္တနော, သ သီလဝါ ပညဝါ ဓမ္မိကော သိယာ.

Neither for his own sake nor for another's should one desire a son, wealth, or a kingdom. He should not wish for his own success by unrighteous means. Such a one is virtuous, wise, and righteous.

၈၅.

85.

အပ္ပကာ တေ မနုဿေသု, ယေ ဇနာ ပါရဂါမိနော;

အထာယံ ဣတရာ ပဇာ, တီရမေဝါနုဓာဝတိ.

Few among men are those who cross to the farther shore; the rest of mankind runs up and down this shore.

၈၆.

86.

ယေ စ ခေါ သမ္မဒက္ခာတေ, ဓမ္မေ ဓမ္မာနုဝတ္တိနော;

တေ ဇနာ ပါရမေဿန္တိ, မစ္စုဓေယျံ သုဒုတ္တရံ.

But those who live in accordance with the Dhamma, so well-expounded, those people will cross over the realm of Death, so difficult to traverse.

၈၇.

87.

ကဏှံ [Pg.26] ဓမ္မံ ဝိပ္ပဟာယ, သုက္ကံ ဘာဝေထ ပဏ္ဍိတော;

ဩကာ အနောကမာဂမ္မ, ဝိဝေကေ ယတ္ထ ဒူရမံ.

Abandoning the dark states, the wise one should cultivate the bright. Having gone from home to homelessness, he should seek delight in seclusion, so hard to enjoy.

၈၈.

88.

တတြာဘိရတိမိစ္ဆေယျ, ဟိတွာ ကာမေ အကိဉ္စနော;

ပရိယောဒပေယျ အတ္တာနံ, စိတ္တက္လေသေဟိ ပဏ္ဍိတော.

Therein he should seek delight. Having abandoned sensual pleasures, possessing nothing, the wise one should purify himself of the defilements of the mind.

၈၉.

89.

ယေသံ သမ္ဗောဓိယင်္ဂေသု, သမ္မာ စိတ္တံ သုဘာဝိတံ;

အာဒါနပဋိနိဿဂ္ဂေ, အနုပါဒါယ ယေ ရတာ;

ခီဏာသဝါ ဇုတိမန္တော, တေ လောကေ ပရိနိဗ္ဗုတာ.

Those whose minds are well-developed in the factors of enlightenment, who delight in the relinquishing of grasping, without clinging—they, the radiant ones whose taints are destroyed, are fully extinguished in the world.

ပဏ္ဍိတဝဂ္ဂေါ ဆဋ္ဌော နိဋ္ဌိတော.

The Chapter on the Wise, the Sixth, is concluded.

၇. အရဟန္တဝဂ္ဂေါ

7. The Chapter on the Arahant

၉၀.

90.

ဂတဒ္ဓိနော ဝိသောကဿ, ဝိပ္ပမုတ္တဿ သဗ္ဗဓိ;

သဗ္ဗဂန္ထပ္ပဟီနဿ, ပရိဠာဟော န ဝိဇ္ဇတိ.

For one who has completed the journey, is sorrowless, wholly freed in every way, and has cast off all fetters, no fever of passion exists.

၉၁.

91.

ဥယျုဉ္ဇန္တိ သတီမန္တော, န နိကေတေ ရမန္တိ တေ;

ဟံသာဝ ပလ္လလံ ဟိတွာ, ဩကမောကံ ဇဟန္တိ တေ.

The mindful exert themselves; they delight not in any abode. Like swans that have left their lake, they abandon home after home.

၉၂.

92.

ယေသံ သန္နိစယော နတ္ထိ, ယေ ပရိညာတဘောဇနာ;

သုညတော အနိမိတ္တော စ, ဝိမောက္ခော ယေသံ ဂေါစရော;

အာကာသေ ဝ သကုန္တာနံ, ဂတိ တေသံ ဒုရန္နယာ.

Those who have no accumulation, who have full understanding of food, whose sphere is the liberation of emptiness and signlessness—their path is as hard to trace as that of birds in the sky.

၉၃.

93.

ယဿာသဝါ [Pg.27] ပရိက္ခီဏာ, အာဟာရေ စ အနိဿိတော;

သုညတော အနိမိတ္တော စ, ဝိမောက္ခော ယဿ ဂေါစရော;

အာကာသေ ဝ သကုန္တာနံ, ပဒံ တဿ ဒုရန္နယံ.

He whose taints are destroyed, who is not attached to food, whose sphere is the liberation of emptiness and signlessness—his track is as hard to trace as that of birds in the sky.

၉၄.

94.

ယဿိန္ဒြိယာနိ သမထင်္ဂတာနိ, အဿာ ယထာ သာရထိနာ သုဒန္တာ;

ပဟီနမာနဿ အနာသဝဿ, ဒေဝါပိ တဿ ပိဟယန္တိ တာဒိနော.

He whose faculties are pacified, like horses well-tamed by a charioteer, who has abandoned conceit and is free from taints—even the gods hold such a one dear.

၉၅.

95.

ပထဝိသမော နော ဝိရုဇ္ဈတိ, ဣန္ဒခိလုပမော တာဒိ သုဗ္ဗတော;

ရဟဒေါဝ အပေတကဒ္ဒမော, သံသာရာ န ဘဝန္တိ တာဒိနော.

Like the earth, he is not resentful; steadfast like a city pillar, he is of virtuous conduct. Like a lake free from mud, for such a one there are no more cycles of rebirth.

၉၆.

96.

သန္တံ တဿ မနံ ဟောတိ, သန္တာ ဝါစာ စ ကမ္မ စ;

သမ္မဒညာ ဝိမုတ္တဿ, ဥပသန္တဿ တာဒိနော.

Peaceful is his mind, peaceful his speech and action—of one who is freed through right understanding, perfectly tranquil.

၉၇.

97.

အဿဒ္ဓေါ အကတညူ စ, သန္ဓိစ္ဆေဒေါ စ ယော နရော;

ဟတာဝကာသော ဝန္တာသော, သ ဝေ ဥတ္တမပေါရိသော.

The man who is beyond faith, who knows the Uncreated, who has severed the links, who has destroyed the opportunity, and who has cast off all desire—he is indeed the supreme person.

၉၈.

98.

ဂါမေ ဝါ ယဒိ ဝါရညေ, နိန္နေ ဝါ ယဒိ ဝါ ထလေ;

ယတ္ထ အရဟန္တော ဝိဟရန္တိ, တံ ဘူမိရာမဏေယျကံ.

Whether in a village or in the forest, in a valley or on high ground, wherever Arahants dwell, that land is delightful.

၉၉.

99.

ရမဏီယာနိ [Pg.28] အရညာနိ, ယတ္ထ န ရမတီ ဇနော;

ဝီတရာဂါ ရမိဿန္တိ, န တေ ကာမဂဝေသိနော.

Delightful are the forests where the worldly find no delight. There the passionless will find delight, for they are not seekers of sensual pleasures.

အရဟန္တဝဂ္ဂေါ သတ္တမော နိဋ္ဌိတော.

The Chapter on the Arahant, the Seventh, is concluded.

၈. သဟဿဝဂ္ဂေါ

8. The Chapter on Thousands

၁၀၀.

100.

သဟဿမပိ စေ ဝါစာ, အနတ္ထပဒသံဟိတာ;

ဧကံ အတ္ထပဒံ သေယျော, ယံ သုတွာ ဥပသမ္မတိ.

Better than a thousand words composed of meaningless phrases is one meaningful phrase, hearing which one is pacified.

၁၀၁.

101.

သဟဿမပိ စေ ဂါထာ, အနတ္ထပဒသံဟိတာ;

ဧကံ ဂါထာပဒံ သေယျော, ယံ သုတွာ ဥပသမ္မတိ.

Better than a thousand verses composed of meaningless lines is one line of a verse, hearing which one is pacified.

၁၀၂.

102.

ယော စ ဂါထာ သတံ ဘာသေ, အနတ္ထပဒသံဟိတာ ;

ဧကံ ဓမ္မပဒံ သေယျော, ယံ သုတွာ ဥပသမ္မတိ.

Better than reciting a hundred verses composed of meaningless lines is one line of the Dhamma, hearing which one is pacified.

၁၀၃.

103.

ယော သဟဿံ သဟဿေန, သင်္ဂါမေ မာနုသေ ဇိနေ;

ဧကဉ္စ ဇေယျမတ္တာနံ, သ ဝေ သင်္ဂါမဇုတ္တမော.

Though one may conquer a thousand times a thousand men in battle, yet he who conquers his own self is the supreme victor.

၁၀၄.

104.

အတ္တာ ဟဝေ ဇိတံ သေယျော, ယာ စာယံ ဣတရာ ပဇာ;

အတ္တဒန္တဿ ပေါသဿ, နိစ္စံ သညတစာရိနော.

Self-conquest is indeed better than the conquest of other folk. For a person who is self-controlled, ever restrained in conduct,

၁၀၅.

105.

နေဝ ဒေဝေါ န ဂန္ဓဗ္ဗော, န မာရော သဟ ဗြဟ္မုနာ;

ဇိတံ အပဇိတံ ကယိရာ, တထာရူပဿ ဇန္တုနော.

Neither a deva nor a gandhabba, nor Māra together with Brahmā, can turn the victory of such a being into defeat.

၁၀၆.

106.

မာသေ [Pg.29] မာသေ သဟဿေန, ယော ယဇေထ သတံ သမံ;

ဧကဉ္စ ဘာဝိတတ္တာနံ, မုဟုတ္တမပိ ပူဇယေ;

သာယေဝ ပူဇနာ သေယျော, ယဉ္စေ ဝဿသတံ ဟုတံ.

Month after month, with a thousand, one might offer sacrifices for a hundred years; but if for just a moment one honors one who has developed himself, that homage indeed is better than a hundred years of sacrifices.

၁၀၇.

107.

ယော စ ဝဿသတံ ဇန္တု, အဂ္ဂိံ ပရိစရေ ဝနေ;

ဧကဉ္စ ဘာဝိတတ္တာနံ, မုဟုတ္တမပိ ပူဇယေ;

သာယေဝ ပူဇနာ သေယျော, ယဉ္စေ ဝဿသတံ ဟုတံ.

Though a person should live for a hundred years in the forest, tending the sacred fire, yet if for just a moment one honors one who has developed himself, that homage indeed is better than a hundred years of sacrifices.

၁၀၈.

108.

ယံ ကိဉ္စိ ယိဋ္ဌံ ဝ ဟုတံ ဝ လောကေ, သံဝစ္ဆရံ ယဇေထ ပုညပေက္ခော;

သဗ္ဗမ္ပိ တံ န စတုဘာဂမေတိ, အဘိဝါဒနာ ဥဇ္ဇုဂတေသု သေယျော.

Whatever sacrifice or oblation one seeking merit might offer in the world for a year, all of that does not amount to a fourth part; reverence toward the upright is better.

၁၀၉.

109.

အဘိဝါဒနသီလိဿ, နိစ္စံ ဝုဍ္ဎာပစာယိနော ;

စတ္တာရော ဓမ္မာ ဝဍ္ဎန္တိ, အာယု ဝဏ္ဏော သုခံ ဗလံ.

For one of respectful nature, who constantly reveres the elders, four qualities increase: longevity, beauty, happiness, and strength.

၁၁၀.

110.

ယော စ ဝဿသတံ ဇီဝေ, ဒုဿီလော အသမာဟိတော;

ဧကာဟံ ဇီဝိတံ သေယျော, သီလဝန္တဿ ဈာယိနော.

Though one should live a hundred years, immoral and unconcentrated, better is a single day's life for one who is virtuous and meditative.

၁၁၁.

111.

ယော စ ဝဿသတံ ဇီဝေ, ဒုပ္ပညော အသမာဟိတော;

ဧကာဟံ ဇီဝိတံ သေယျော, ပညဝန္တဿ ဈာယိနော.

Though one should live a hundred years, unwise and unconcentrated, better is a single day's life for one who is wise and meditative.

၁၁၂.

112.

ယော စ ဝဿသတံ ဇီဝေ, ကုသီတော ဟီနဝီရိယော;

ဧကာဟံ ဇီဝိတံ သေယျော, ဝီရိယမာရဘတော ဒဠှံ.

Though one should live a hundred years, lazy and of weak energy, better is a single day's life for one who firmly undertakes the effort.

၁၁၃.

113.

ယော [Pg.30] စ ဝဿသတံ ဇီဝေ, အပဿံ ဥဒယဗ္ဗယံ;

ဧကာဟံ ဇီဝိတံ သေယျော, ပဿတော ဥဒယဗ္ဗယံ.

Though one should live a hundred years, not seeing arising and passing away, better is a single day's life for one who sees arising and passing away.

၁၁၄.

114.

ယော စ ဝဿသတံ ဇီဝေ, အပဿံ အမတံ ပဒံ;

ဧကာဟံ ဇီဝိတံ သေယျော, ပဿတော အမတံ ပဒံ.

Though one should live a hundred years, not seeing the Deathless State, better is a single day's life for one who sees the Deathless State.

၁၁၅.

115.

ယော စ ဝဿသတံ ဇီဝေ, အပဿံ ဓမ္မမုတ္တမံ;

ဧကာဟံ ဇီဝိတံ သေယျော, ပဿတော ဓမ္မမုတ္တမံ.

Though one should live a hundred years, not seeing the supreme Dhamma, better is a single day's life for one who sees the supreme Dhamma.

သဟဿဝဂ္ဂေါ အဋ္ဌမော နိဋ္ဌိတော.

The Eighth Chapter, The Thousands, is concluded.

၉. ပါပဝဂ္ဂေါ

9. The Chapter on Evil

၁၁၆.

116.

အဘိတ္ထရေထ ကလျာဏေ, ပါပါ စိတ္တံ နိဝါရယေ;

ဒန္ဓဉှိ ကရောတော ပုညံ, ပါပသ္မိံ ရမတီ မနော.

One should hasten in doing good; one should restrain the mind from evil. For the mind of one who is slow in making merit delights in evil.

၁၁၇.

117.

ပါပဉ္စေ ပုရိသော ကယိရာ, န နံ ကယိရာ ပုနပ္ပုနံ;

န တမှိ ဆန္ဒံ ကယိရာထ, ဒုက္ခော ပါပဿ ဥစ္စယော.

If a person should do evil, let him not do it again and again; let him not set his heart on it. Painful is the accumulation of evil.

၁၁၈.

118.

ပုညဉ္စေ ပုရိသော ကယိရာ, ကယိရာ နံ ပုနပ္ပုနံ;

တမှိ ဆန္ဒံ ကယိရာထ, သုခေါ ပုညဿ ဥစ္စယော.

If a person should do good, let him do it again and again; let him set his heart on it. Happy is the accumulation of good.

၁၁၉.

119.

ပါပေါပိ [Pg.31] ပဿတိ ဘဒြံ, ယာဝ ပါပံ န ပစ္စတိ;

ယဒါ စ ပစ္စတိ ပါပံ, အထ ပါပေါ ပါပါနိ ပဿတိ.

Even an evil-doer sees good, as long as the evil has not ripened; but when the evil ripens, then the evil-doer sees evil.

၁၂၀.

120.

ဘဒြောပိ ပဿတိ ပါပံ, ယာဝ ဘဒြံ န ပစ္စတိ;

ယဒါ စ ပစ္စတိ ဘဒြံ, အထ ဘဒြော ဘဒြာနိ ပဿတိ.

Even a good person sees evil, as long as the good has not ripened; but when the good ripens, then the good person sees good things.

၁၂၁.

121.

မာဝမညေထ ပါပဿ, န မန္တံ အာဂမိဿတိ;

ဥဒဗိန္ဒုနိပါတေန, ဥဒကုမ္ဘောပိ ပူရတိ;

ဗာလော ပူရတိ ပါပဿ, ထောကံ ထောကမ္ပိ အာစိနံ.

Do not think lightly of evil, saying, 'It will not come to me.' By the falling of water drops, a water pot is filled; the fool fills himself with evil, accumulating it little by little.

၁၂၂.

122.

မာဝမညေထ ပုညဿ, န မန္တံ အာဂမိဿတိ;

ဥဒဗိန္ဒုနိပါတေန, ဥဒကုမ္ဘောပိ ပူရတိ;

ဓီရော ပူရတိ ပုညဿ, ထောကံ ထောကမ္ပိ အာစိနံ.

Do not think lightly of merit, saying, 'It will not come to me.' By the falling of water drops, a water pot is filled; the wise person fills himself with merit, accumulating it little by little.

၁၂၃.

123.

ဝါဏိဇောဝ ဘယံ မဂ္ဂံ, အပ္ပသတ္ထော မဟဒ္ဓနော;

ဝိသံ ဇီဝိတုကာမောဝ, ပါပါနိ ပရိဝဇ္ဇယေ.

As a merchant with a small caravan and great wealth avoids a perilous road, and as one who desires to live avoids poison, so should one shun evil deeds.

၁၂၄.

124.

ပါဏိမှိ စေ ဝဏော နာဿ, ဟရေယျ ပါဏိနာ ဝိသံ;

နာဗ္ဗဏံ ဝိသမနွေတိ, နတ္ထိ ပါပံ အကုဗ္ဗတော.

If there is no wound on the hand, one may carry poison with the hand. Poison does not affect one who is unwounded; there is no evil for one who does no evil.

၁၂၅.

125.

ယော [Pg.32] အပ္ပဒုဋ္ဌဿ နရဿ ဒုဿတိ, သုဒ္ဓဿ ပေါသဿ အနင်္ဂဏဿ;

တမေဝ ဗာလံ ပစ္စေတိ ပါပံ, သုခုမော ရဇော ပဋိဝါတံဝ ခိတ္တော.

Whoever offends a harmless, pure, and faultless person—evil returns to that very fool, like fine dust thrown against the wind.

၁၂၆.

126.

ဂဗ္ဘမေကေ ဥပ္ပဇ္ဇန္တိ, နိရယံ ပါပကမ္မိနော;

သဂ္ဂံ သုဂတိနော ယန္တိ, ပရိနိဗ္ဗန္တိ အနာသဝါ.

Some are born in a womb; evil-doers arise in hell; the virtuous go to heaven; the taintless attain Parinibbāna.

၁၂၇.

127.

န အန္တလိက္ခေ န သမုဒ္ဒမဇ္ဈေ, န ပဗ္ဗတာနံ ဝိဝရံ ပဝိဿ ;

န ဝိဇ္ဇတီ သော ဇဂတိပ္ပဒေသော, ယတ္ထဋ္ဌိတော မုစ္စေယျ ပါပကမ္မာ.

Not in the sky, nor in the middle of the sea, nor by entering a mountain cleft, is there any place on earth where, abiding, one might be freed from an evil deed.

၁၂၈.

128.

န အန္တလိက္ခေ န သမုဒ္ဒမဇ္ဈေ, န ပဗ္ဗတာနံ ဝိဝရံ ပဝိဿ;

န ဝိဇ္ဇတီ သော ဇဂတိပ္ပဒေသော, ယတ္ထဋ္ဌိတံ နပ္ပသဟေယျ မစ္စု.

Not in the sky, nor in the middle of the sea, nor by entering a mountain cleft, is there any place on earth where, abiding, one would not be overcome by death.

ပါပဝဂ္ဂေါ နဝမော နိဋ္ဌိတော.

The Ninth Chapter, Evil, is concluded.

၁၀. ဒဏ္ဍဝဂ္ဂေါ

10. The Chapter on the Rod

၁၂၉.

129.

သဗ္ဗေ တသန္တိ ဒဏ္ဍဿ, သဗ္ဗေ ဘာယန္တိ မစ္စုနော;

အတ္တာနံ ဥပမံ ကတွာ, န ဟနေယျ န ဃာတယေ.

All tremble at the rod, all fear death. Having made oneself the example, one should neither strike nor cause to be struck.

၁၃၀.

130.

သဗ္ဗေ [Pg.33] တသန္တိ ဒဏ္ဍဿ, သဗ္ဗေသံ ဇီဝိတံ ပိယံ;

အတ္တာနံ ဥပမံ ကတွာ, န ဟနေယျ န ဃာတယေ.

All tremble at the rod, to all life is dear. Having made oneself the example, one should neither strike nor cause to be struck.

၁၃၁.

131.

သုခကာမာနိ ဘူတာနိ, ယော ဒဏ္ဍေန ဝိဟိံသတိ;

အတ္တနော သုခမေသာနော, ပေစ္စ သော န လဘတေ သုခံ.

Beings desire happiness; whoever, seeking one's own happiness, harms them with a rod, does not find happiness after death.

၁၃၂.

132.

သုခကာမာနိ ဘူတာနိ, ယော ဒဏ္ဍေန န ဟိံသတိ;

အတ္တနော သုခမေသာနော, ပေစ္စ သော လဘတေ သုခံ.

Beings desire happiness; whoever, seeking one's own happiness, does not harm them with a rod, finds happiness after death.

၁၃၃.

133.

မာဝေါစ ဖရုသံ ကဉ္စိ, ဝုတ္တာ ပဋိဝဒေယျု တံ ;

ဒုက္ခာ ဟိ သာရမ္ဘကထာ, ပဋိဒဏ္ဍာ ဖုသေယျု တံ.

Speak harshly to no one; those spoken to may retaliate. Contentious speech is painful, and retribution may befall you.

၁၃၄.

134.

သစေ နေရေသိ အတ္တာနံ, ကံသော ဥပဟတော ယထာ;

ဧသ ပတ္တောသိ နိဗ္ဗာနံ, သာရမ္ဘော တေ န ဝိဇ္ဇတိ.

If you can keep yourself silent, like a shattered bronze gong, you have already reached Nibbāna; no contention is found in you.

၁၃၅.

135.

ယထာ ဒဏ္ဍေန ဂေါပါလော, ဂါဝေါ ပါဇေတိ ဂေါစရံ;

ဧဝံ ဇရာ စ မစ္စု စ, အာယုံ ပါဇေန္တိ ပါဏိနံ.

As a cowherd with a staff drives cattle to pasture, so do aging and death drive the lives of beings.

၁၃၆.

136.

အထ ပါပါနိ ကမ္မာနိ, ကရံ ဗာလော န ဗုဇ္ဈတိ;

သေဟိ ကမ္မေဟိ ဒုမ္မေဓော, အဂ္ဂိဒဍ္ဎောဝ တပ္ပတိ.

When a fool commits evil deeds, he does not realize it; the dull-witted one is tormented by his own actions, as if burned by fire.

၁၃၇.

137.

ယော ဒဏ္ဍေန အဒဏ္ဍေသု, အပ္ပဒုဋ္ဌေသု ဒုဿတိ;

ဒသန္နမညတရံ ဌာနံ, ခိပ္ပမေဝ နိဂစ္ဆတိ.

Whoever with a rod harms the rodless and the harmless, quickly comes to one of ten states.

၁၃၈.

138.

ဝေဒနံ [Pg.34] ဖရုသံ ဇာနိံ, သရီရဿ စ ဘေဒနံ ;

ဂရုကံ ဝါပိ အာဗာဓံ, စိတ္တက္ခေပဉ္စ ပါပုဏေ.

He may encounter harsh pain, loss, or injury to the body; or grave illness, or derangement of mind.

၁၃၉.

139.

ရာဇတော ဝါ ဥပသဂ္ဂံ, အဗ္ဘက္ခာနဉ္စ ဒါရုဏံ;

ပရိက္ခယဉ္စ ဉာတီနံ, ဘောဂါနဉ္စ ပဘင်္ဂုရံ.

Or trouble from the king, or a terrible accusation; or loss of relatives, or the destruction of wealth.

၁၄၀.

140.

အထ ဝါဿ အဂါရာနိ, အဂ္ဂိ ဍဟတိ ပါဝကော;

ကာယဿ ဘေဒါ ဒုပ္ပညော, နိရယံ သောပပဇ္ဇတိ.

Or else a blazing fire will burn his houses; and upon the breakup of the body, the fool is reborn in hell.

၁၄၁.

141.

န နဂ္ဂစရိယာ န ဇဋာ န ပင်္ကာ, နာနာသကာ ထဏ္ဍိလသာယိကာ ဝါ;

ရဇောဇလ္လံ ဥက္ကုဋိကပ္ပဓာနံ, သောဓေန္တိ မစ္စံ အဝိတိဏ္ဏကင်္ခံ.

Not going naked, not matted hair, not mud, not fasting, not lying on the bare ground, not dust and grime, nor striving in a squatting posture—these do not purify a mortal who has not overcome doubt.

၁၄၂.

142.

အလင်္ကတော စေပိ သမံ စရေယျ, သန္တော ဒန္တော နိယတော ဗြဟ္မစာရီ;

သဗ္ဗေသု ဘူတေသု နိဓာယ ဒဏ္ဍံ, သော ဗြာဟ္မဏော သော သမဏော သ ဘိက္ခု.

Though adorned, if one should live in peace—calm, tamed, restrained, leading the holy life, having laid down the rod toward all beings—he is a brahmin, he is a recluse, he is a monk.

၁၄၃.

143.

ဟိရီနိသေဓော ပုရိသော, ကောစိ လောကသ္မိ ဝိဇ္ဇတိ;

ယော နိဒ္ဒံ အပဗောဓေတိ, အဿော ဘဒြော ကသာမိဝ.

Rarely is a person found in this world who, restrained by shame, is alert to censure as a fine horse is to the whip.

၁၄၄.

144.

အဿော [Pg.35] ယထာ ဘဒြော ကသာနိဝိဋ္ဌော, အာတာပိနော သံဝေဂိနော ဘဝါထ;

သဒ္ဓါယ သီလေန စ ဝီရိယေန စ, သမာဓိနာ ဓမ္မဝိနိစ္ဆယေန စ;

သမ္ပန္နဝိဇ္ဇာစရဏာ ပတိဿတာ, ဇဟိဿထ ဒုက္ခမိဒံ အနပ္ပကံ.

Like a fine horse touched by the whip, be ardent and filled with urgency. Through faith, virtue, energy, concentration, and discernment of the Dhamma, endowed with knowledge and good conduct, and ever mindful, you shall abandon this great suffering.

၁၄၅.

145.

ဥဒကဉှိ နယန္တိ နေတ္တိကာ, ဥသုကာရာ နမယန္တိ တေဇနံ;

ဒါရုံ နမယန္တိ တစ္ဆကာ, အတ္တာနံ ဒမယန္တိ သုဗ္ဗတာ.

Irrigators guide the water, fletchers straighten the arrow, carpenters shape the wood; the well-disciplined tame themselves.

ဒဏ္ဍဝဂ္ဂေါ ဒသမော နိဋ္ဌိတော.

The Tenth Chapter, on the Rod, is concluded.

၁၁. ဇရာဝဂ္ဂေါ

11. The Chapter on Old Age

၁၄၆.

146.

ကော နု ဟာသော ကိမာနန္ဒော, နိစ္စံ ပဇ္ဇလိတေ သတိ;

အန္ဓကာရေန ဩနဒ္ဓါ, ပဒီပံ န ဂဝေသထ.

What laughter, what joy, when the world is ever ablaze? Shrouded in darkness, will you not seek a light?

၁၄၇.

147.

ပဿ စိတ္တကတံ ဗိမ္ဗံ, အရုကာယံ သမုဿိတံ;

အာတုရံ ဗဟုသင်္ကပ္ပံ, ယဿ နတ္ထိ ဓုဝံ ဌိတိ.

Behold this decorated image, a heap of sores, a body built up, diseased and full of many thoughts, which has no permanence or stability.

၁၄၈.

148.

ပရိဇိဏ္ဏမိဒံ ရူပံ, ရောဂနီဠံ ပဘင်္ဂုရံ;

ဘိဇ္ဇတိ ပူတိသန္ဒေဟော, မရဏန္တဉှိ ဇီဝိတံ.

This form is worn out, a nest of diseases, and fragile. This foul mass breaks apart, for life truly ends in death.

၁၄၉.

149.

ယာနိမာနိ [Pg.36] အပတ္ထာနိ, အလာဗူနေဝ သာရဒေ;

ကာပေါတကာနိ အဋ္ဌီနိ, တာနိ ဒိသွာန ကာ ရတိ.

These dove-colored bones, cast away like gourds in autumn—what delight is there in seeing them?

၁၅၀.

150.

အဋ္ဌီနံ နဂရံ ကတံ, မံသလောဟိတလေပနံ;

ယတ္ထ ဇရာ စ မစ္စု စ, မာနော မက္ခော စ ဩဟိတော.

A city of bones is made, plastered with flesh and blood, wherein are deposited old age and death, pride and hypocrisy.

၁၅၁.

151.

ဇီရန္တိ ဝေ ရာဇရထာ သုစိတ္တာ, အထော သရီရမ္ပိ ဇရံ ဥပေတိ;

သတဉ္စ ဓမ္မော န ဇရံ ဥပေတိ, သန္တော ဟဝေ သဗ္ဘိ ပဝေဒယန္တိ.

Even splendid royal chariots wear out, and the body too approaches old age. But the Dhamma of the good does not approach old age; thus do the good make it known to the good.

၁၅၂.

152.

အပ္ပဿုတာယံ ပုရိသော, ဗလိဗဒ္ဓေါဝ ဇီရတိ;

မံသာနိ တဿ ဝဍ္ဎန္တိ, ပညာ တဿ န ဝဍ္ဎတိ.

This person of little learning ages like an ox; his flesh increases, but his wisdom does not.

၁၅၃.

153.

အနေကဇာတိသံသာရံ, သန္ဓာဝိဿံ အနိဗ္ဗိသံ;

ဂဟကာရံ ဂဝေသန္တော, ဒုက္ခာ ဇာတိ ပုနပ္ပုနံ.

Through the round of many births I have run, seeking but not finding the builder of this house. Painful is birth again and again.

၁၅၄.

154.

ဂဟကာရက ဒိဋ္ဌောသိ, ပုန ဂေဟံ န ကာဟသိ;

သဗ္ဗာ တေ ဖာသုကာ ဘဂ္ဂါ, ဂဟကူဋံ ဝိသင်္ခတံ;

ဝိသင်္ခါရဂတံ စိတ္တံ, တဏှာနံ ခယမဇ္ဈဂါ.

O house-builder, you are seen! You shall not build a house again. All your rafters are broken, your ridgepole is shattered. My mind has reached the unconditioned; I have attained the destruction of craving.

၁၅၅.

155.

အစရိတွာ ဗြဟ္မစရိယံ, အလဒ္ဓါ ယောဗ္ဗနေ ဓနံ;

ဇိဏ္ဏကောဉ္စာဝ ဈာယန္တိ, ခီဏမစ္ဆေဝ ပလ္လလေ.

Not having lived the holy life, not having gained wealth in their youth, they pine away like old herons in a pond without fish.

၁၅၆.

156.

အစရိတွာ [Pg.37] ဗြဟ္မစရိယံ, အလဒ္ဓါ ယောဗ္ဗနေ ဓနံ;

သေန္တိ စာပါတိခီဏာဝ, ပုရာဏာနိ အနုတ္ထုနံ.

Not having lived the holy life, not having gained wealth in their youth, they lie like spent arrows shot from a bow, sighing over the past.

ဇရာဝဂ္ဂေါ ဧကာဒသမော နိဋ္ဌိတော.

The Chapter on Old Age, the Eleventh, is Finished.

၁၂. အတ္တဝဂ္ဂေါ

12. The Chapter on the Self

၁၅၇.

157.

အတ္တာနဉ္စေ ပိယံ ဇညာ, ရက္ခေယျ နံ သုရက္ခိတံ;

တိဏ္ဏံ အညတရံ ယာမံ, ပဋိဇဂ္ဂေယျ ပဏ္ဍိတော.

If one holds oneself dear, one should guard oneself well. A wise person should keep vigil during one of the three watches.

၁၅၈.

158.

အတ္တာနမေဝ ပဌမံ, ပတိရူပေ နိဝေသယေ;

အထညမနုသာသေယျ, န ကိလိဿေယျ ပဏ္ဍိတော.

First establish oneself in what is proper; then instruct others. The wise one will not be defiled.

၁၅၉.

159.

အတ္တာနံ စေ တထာ ကယိရာ, ယထာညမနုသာသတိ;

သုဒန္တော ဝတ ဒမေထ, အတ္တာ ဟိ ကိရ ဒုဒ္ဒမော.

If one would act as one instructs others, then, being well-controlled, one may tame others. For the self is indeed hard to tame.

၁၆၀.

160.

အတ္တာ ဟိ အတ္တနော နာထော, ကော ဟိ နာထော ပရော သိယာ;

အတ္တနာ ဟိ သုဒန္တေန, နာထံ လဘတိ ဒုလ္လဘံ.

One is truly one’s own protector; who else could be the protector? With oneself well-tamed, one obtains a protector difficult to find.

၁၆၁.

161.

အတ္တနာ ဟိ ကတံ ပါပံ, အတ္တဇံ အတ္တသမ္ဘဝံ;

အဘိမတ္ထတိ ဒုမ္မေဓံ, ဝဇိရံ ဝသ္မမယံ မဏိံ.

Evil done by oneself, born of oneself, arising from oneself, crushes the foolish one, as a diamond crushes a stone gem.

၁၆၂.

162.

ယဿ အစ္စန္တဒုဿီလျံ, မာလုဝါ သာလမိဝေါတ္ထတံ;

ကရောတိ သော တထတ္တာနံ, ယထာ နံ ဣစ္ဆတီ ဒိသော.

He whose extreme immorality has overgrown him, like a māluvā creeper a sāla tree, makes of himself what an enemy wishes for him.

၁၆၃.

163.

သုကရာနိ [Pg.38] အသာဓူနိ, အတ္တနော အဟိတာနိ စ;

ယံ ဝေ ဟိတဉ္စ သာဓုဉ္စ, တံ ဝေ ပရမဒုက္ကရံ.

Easy to do are unwholesome deeds and those harmful to oneself; but what is beneficial and wholesome is extremely difficult to do.

၁၆၄.

164.

ယော သာသနံ အရဟတံ, အရိယာနံ ဓမ္မဇီဝိနံ;

ပဋိက္ကောသတိ ဒုမ္မေဓော, ဒိဋ္ဌိံ နိဿာယ ပါပိကံ;

ဖလာနိ ကဋ္ဌကဿေဝ, အတ္တဃာတာယ ဖလ္လတိ.

The fool who, relying on a wicked view, scorns the teaching of the Arahants, the noble ones who live according to Dhamma—like the kaṭṭhaka reed, he bears fruit for his own destruction.

၁၆၅.

165.

အတ္တနာ ဟိ ကတံ ပါပံ, အတ္တနာ သံကိလိဿတိ;

အတ္တနာ အကတံ ပါပံ, အတ္တနာဝ ဝိသုဇ္ဈတိ;

သုဒ္ဓီ အသုဒ္ဓိ ပစ္စတ္တံ, နာညော အညံ ဝိသောဓယေ.

By oneself is evil done; by oneself is one defiled. By oneself is evil not done; by oneself is one purified. Purity and impurity are personal matters; no one can purify another.

၁၆၆.

166.

အတ္တဒတ္ထံ ပရတ္ထေန, ဗဟုနာပိ န ဟာပယေ;

အတ္တဒတ္ထမဘိညာယ, သဒတ္ထပသုတော သိယာ.

Let one not neglect one's own welfare for the sake of another's, however great. Having clearly understood one's own welfare, let one be intent upon it.

အတ္တဝဂ္ဂေါ ဒွါဒသမော နိဋ္ဌိတော.

The Chapter on the Self, the Twelfth, is Finished.

၁၃. လောကဝဂ္ဂေါ

13. The Chapter on the World

၁၆၇.

167.

ဟီနံ ဓမ္မံ န သေဝေယျ, ပမာဒေန န သံဝသေ;

မိစ္ဆာဒိဋ္ဌိံ န သေဝေယျ, န သိယာ လောကဝဍ္ဎနော.

One should not follow a base dhamma; one should not live in heedlessness. One should not follow a wrong view; one should not be a world-increaser.

၁၆၈.

168.

ဥတ္တိဋ္ဌေ နပ္ပမဇ္ဇေယျ, ဓမ္မံ သုစရိတံ စရေ;

ဓမ္မစာရီ သုခံ သေတိ, အသ္မိံ လောကေ ပရမှိ စ.

One should rouse oneself, not be heedless; one should practice the Dhamma well. The one who practices the Dhamma dwells happily in this world and the next.

၁၆၉.

169.

ဓမ္မံ [Pg.39] စရေ သုစရိတံ, န နံ ဒုစ္စရိတံ စရေ;

ဓမ္မစာရီ သုခံ သေတိ, အသ္မိံ လောကေ ပရမှိ စ.

Practice the Dhamma well; do not practice it badly. The one who practices the Dhamma dwells happily in this world and the next.

၁၇၀.

170.

ယထာ ပုဗ္ဗုဠကံ ပဿေ, ယထာ ပဿေ မရီစိကံ;

ဧဝံ လောကံ အဝေက္ခန္တံ, မစ္စုရာဇာ န ပဿတိ.

As one would look upon a bubble, as one would look upon a mirage—the King of Death does not see one who looks upon the world in this way.

၁၇၁.

171.

ဧထ ပဿထိမံ လောကံ, စိတ္တံ ရာဇရထူပမံ;

ယတ္ထ ဗာလာ ဝိသီဒန္တိ, နတ္ထိ သင်္ဂေါ ဝိဇာနတံ.

Come, behold this world, like a decorated royal chariot, wherein fools flounder, but for the knowing there is no attachment.

၁၇၂.

172.

ယော စ ပုဗ္ဗေ ပမဇ္ဇိတွာ, ပစ္ဆာ သော နပ္ပမဇ္ဇတိ;

သောမံ လောကံ ပဘာသေတိ, အဗ္ဘာ မုတ္တောဝ စန္ဒိမာ.

Whoever, having been heedless before, is later not heedless, illuminates this world like the moon freed from a cloud.

၁၇၃.

173.

ယဿ ပါပံ ကတံ ကမ္မံ, ကုသလေန ပိဓီယတိ ;

သောမံ လောကံ ပဘာသေတိ, အဗ္ဘာ မုတ္တောဝ စန္ဒိမာ.

He whose evil deed is covered by a wholesome one illuminates this world like the moon freed from a cloud.

၁၇၄.

174.

အန္ဓဘူတော အယံ လောကော, တနုကေတ္ထ ဝိပဿတိ;

သကုဏော ဇာလမုတ္တောဝ, အပ္ပော သဂ္ဂါယ ဂစ္ဆတိ.

This world is blind; few here see clearly. Like a bird freed from a net, few go to heaven.

၁၇၅.

175.

ဟံသာဒိစ္စပထေ ယန္တိ, အာကာသေ ယန္တိ ဣဒ္ဓိယာ;

နီယန္တိ ဓီရာ လောကမှာ, ဇေတွာ မာရံ သဝါဟိနိံ.

Swans travel on the path of the sun; they travel through the sky by psychic power. The wise are led out from the world, having conquered Māra and his army.

၁၇၆.

176.

ဧကံ ဓမ္မံ အတီတဿ, မုသာဝါဒိဿ ဇန္တုနော;

ဝိတိဏ္ဏပရလောကဿ, နတ္ထိ ပါပံ အကာရိယံ.

For a person who has transgressed the one principle, who speaks falsehood, and who has disregarded the next world, there is no evil that cannot be done.

၁၇၇.

177.

န [Pg.40] ဝေ ကဒရိယာ ဒေဝလောကံ ဝဇန္တိ, ဗာလာ ဟဝေ နပ္ပသံသန္တိ ဒါနံ;

ဓီရော စ ဒါနံ အနုမောဒမာနော, တေနေဝ သော ဟောတိ သုခီ ပရတ္ထ.

Indeed, the miserly do not go to the world of the devas; fools certainly do not praise giving. But the wise one, rejoicing in giving, is thereby happy hereafter.

၁၇၈.

178.

ပထဗျာ ဧကရဇ္ဇေန, သဂ္ဂဿ ဂမနေန ဝါ;

သဗ္ဗလောကာဓိပစ္စေန, သောတာပတ္တိဖလံ ဝရံ.

Better than sole sovereignty over the earth, than going to heaven, or than lordship over all the worlds, is the fruit of stream-entry.

လောကဝဂ္ဂေါ တေရသမော နိဋ္ဌိတော.

The Chapter on the World, the Thirteenth, is Finished.

၁၄. ဗုဒ္ဓဝဂ္ဂေါ

14. The Chapter on the Buddha

၁၇၉.

179.

ယဿ ဇိတံ နာဝဇီယတိ, ဇိတံ ယဿ နော ယာတိ ကောစိ လောကေ;

တံ ဗုဒ္ဓမနန္တဂေါစရံ, အပဒံ ကေန ပဒေန နေဿထ.

Whose victory is not undone, whose victory no one in the world can surpass—that Buddha of infinite range, the trackless—by what track will you lead him?

၁၈၀.

180.

ယဿ ဇာလိနီ ဝိသတ္တိကာ, တဏှာ နတ္ထိ ကုဟိဉ္စိ နေတဝေ;

တံ ဗုဒ္ဓမနန္တဂေါစရံ, အပဒံ ကေန ပဒေန နေဿထ.

In whom there is no entangling, venomous craving to lead anywhere—that Buddha of infinite range, the trackless—by what track will you lead him?

၁၈၁.

181.

ယေ ဈာနပသုတာ ဓီရာ, နေက္ခမ္မူပသမေ ရတာ;

ဒေဝါပိ တေသံ ပိဟယန္တိ, သမ္ဗုဒ္ဓါနံ သတီမတံ.

The wise who are devoted to meditation, who delight in the peace of renunciation—even the gods envy them, the enlightened, the mindful.

၁၈၂.

182.

ကိစ္ဆော [Pg.41] မနုဿပဋိလာဘော, ကိစ္ဆံ မစ္စာန ဇီဝိတံ;

ကိစ္ဆံ သဒ္ဓမ္မဿဝနံ, ကိစ္ဆော ဗုဒ္ဓါနမုပ္ပာဒေါ.

Difficult is it to obtain a human birth; difficult is the life of mortals; difficult is the hearing of the True Dhamma; difficult is the arising of Buddhas.

၁၈၃.

183.

သဗ္ဗပါပဿ အကရဏံ, ကုသလဿ ဥပသမ္ပဒါ ;

သစိတ္တပရိယောဒပနံ, ဧတံ ဗုဒ္ဓါန သာသနံ.

The non-doing of all evil, the cultivation of the good, the purification of one's own mind—this is the teaching of the Buddhas.

၁၈၄.

184.

ခန္တီ ပရမံ တပေါ တိတိက္ခာ, နိဗ္ဗာနံ ပရမံ ဝဒန္တိ ဗုဒ္ဓါ;

န ဟိ ပဗ္ဗဇိတော ပရူပဃာတီ, န သမဏော ဟောတိ ပရံ ဝိဟေဌယန္တော.

Patient forbearance is the highest austerity. The Buddhas declare Nibbāna to be supreme. One who harms another is not a renunciant; one who oppresses another is not an ascetic.

၁၈၅.

185.

အနူပဝါဒေါ အနူပဃာတော, ပါတိမောက္ခေ စ သံဝရော;

မတ္တညုတာ စ ဘတ္တသ္မိံ, ပန္တဉ္စ သယနာသနံ;

အဓိစိတ္တေ စ အာယောဂေါ, ဧတံ ဗုဒ္ဓါန သာသနံ.

Not reviling, not injuring, restraint in accordance with the Pātimokkha, moderation in food, a secluded dwelling, and devotion to the higher mind—this is the teaching of the Buddhas.

၁၈၆.

186.

န ကဟာပဏဝဿေန, တိတ္တိ ကာမေသု ဝိဇ္ဇတိ;

အပ္ပဿာဒါ ဒုခါ ကာမာ, ဣတိ ဝိညာယ ပဏ္ဍိတော.

Not by a shower of gold coins is satisfaction in sensual pleasures found. Sensual pleasures are of little enjoyment and are suffering—thus having understood, the wise one...

၁၈၇.

187.

အပိ ဒိဗ္ဗေသု ကာမေသု, ရတိံ သော နာဓိဂစ္ဆတိ;

တဏှက္ခယရတော ဟောတိ, သမ္မာသမ္ဗုဒ္ဓသာဝကော.

Even in celestial pleasures he finds no delight. The disciple of the Perfectly Enlightened One delights in the destruction of craving.

၁၈၈.

188.

ဗဟုံ ဝေ သရဏံ ယန္တိ, ပဗ္ဗတာနိ ဝနာနိ စ;

အာရာမရုက္ခစေတျာနိ, မနုဿာ ဘယတဇ္ဇိတာ.

Driven by fear, people go for refuge to mountains and to forests, to parks, sacred trees, and shrines.

၁၈၉.

189.

နေတံ ခေါ သရဏံ ခေမံ, နေတံ သရဏမုတ္တမံ;

နေတံ သရဏမာဂမ္မ, သဗ္ဗဒုက္ခာ ပမုစ္စတိ.

This is not a secure refuge, this is not the supreme refuge. Having come to this refuge, one is not released from all suffering.

၁၉၀.

190.

ယော [Pg.42] စ ဗုဒ္ဓဉ္စ ဓမ္မဉ္စ, သံဃဉ္စ သရဏံ ဂတော;

စတ္တာရိ အရိယသစ္စာနိ, သမ္မပ္ပညာယ ပဿတိ.

But he who has gone for refuge to the Buddha, the Dhamma, and the Sangha, sees with right wisdom the Four Noble Truths:

၁၉၁.

191.

ဒုက္ခံ ဒုက္ခသမုပ္ပာဒံ, ဒုက္ခဿ စ အတိက္ကမံ;

အရိယံ စဋ္ဌင်္ဂိကံ မဂ္ဂံ, ဒုက္ခူပသမဂါမိနံ.

Suffering, the origin of suffering, the overcoming of suffering, and the Noble Eightfold Path that leads to the stilling of suffering.

၁၉၂.

192.

ဧတံ ခေါ သရဏံ ခေမံ, ဧတံ သရဏမုတ္တမံ;

ဧတံ သရဏမာဂမ္မ, သဗ္ဗဒုက္ခာ ပမုစ္စတိ.

This indeed is the secure refuge, this is the supreme refuge. Having come to this refuge, one is released from all suffering.

၁၉၃.

193.

ဒုလ္လဘော ပုရိသာဇညော, န သော သဗ္ဗတ္ထ ဇာယတိ;

ယတ္ထ သော ဇာယတိ ဓီရော, တံ ကုလံ သုခမေဓတိ.

Hard to find is a noble person; such a one is not born everywhere. Wherever that wise one is born, that family prospers happily.

၁၉၄.

194.

သုခေါ ဗုဒ္ဓါနမုပ္ပာဒေါ, သုခါ သဒ္ဓမ္မဒေသနာ;

သုခါ သံဃဿ သာမဂ္ဂီ, သမဂ္ဂါနံ တပေါ သုခေါ.

Happy is the arising of Buddhas, happy is the teaching of the True Dhamma; happy is the harmony of the Sangha, happy is the striving of the harmonious.

၁၉၅.

195.

ပူဇာရဟေ ပူဇယတော, ဗုဒ္ဓေ ယဒိ ဝ သာဝကေ;

ပပဉ္စသမတိက္ကန္တေ, တိဏ္ဏသောကပရိဒ္ဒဝေ.

For one who honors those worthy of honor—the Buddhas or their disciples, who have overcome impediments and crossed beyond sorrow and lamentation—

၁၉၆.

196.

တေ တာဒိသေ ပူဇယတော, နိဗ္ဗုတေ အကုတောဘယေ;

န သက္ကာ ပုညံ သင်္ခါတုံ, ဣမေတ္တမပိ ကေနစိ.

For one who honors such as these—the peaceful and fearless—the merit cannot be measured by anyone as being 'this much'.

ဗုဒ္ဓဝဂ္ဂေါ စုဒ္ဒသမော နိဋ္ဌိတော.

The Fourteenth Chapter, the Chapter on the Buddha, is concluded.

၁၅. သုခဝဂ္ဂေါ

15. The Chapter on Happiness

၁၉၇.

197.

သုသုခံ ဝတ ဇီဝါမ, ဝေရိနေသု အဝေရိနော;

ဝေရိနေသု မနုဿေသု, ဝိဟရာမ အဝေရိနော.

Oh, so very happily we live, without hatred among those who hate. Among people who hate, we dwell without hatred.

၁၉၈.

198.

သုသုခံ [Pg.43] ဝတ ဇီဝါမ, အာတုရေသု အနာတုရာ;

အာတုရေသု မနုဿေသု, ဝိဟရာမ အနာတုရာ.

Oh, so very happily we live, unafflicted among the afflicted. Among afflicted people, we dwell unafflicted.

၁၉၉.

199.

သုသုခံ ဝတ ဇီဝါမ, ဥဿုကေသု အနုဿုကာ;

ဥဿုကေသု မနဿေသု, ဝိဟရာမ အနုဿုကာ.

Oh, so very happily we live, without yearning among those who yearn. Among yearning people, we dwell without yearning.

၂၀၀.

200.

သုသုခံ ဝတ ဇီဝါမ, ယေသံ နော နတ္ထိ ကိဉ္စနံ;

ပီတိဘက္ခာ ဘဝိဿာမ, ဒေဝါ အာဘဿရာ ယထာ.

Oh, so very happily we live, we who have nothing. We shall feed on joy, like the Radiant Gods.

၂၀၁.

201.

ဇယံ ဝေရံ ပသဝတိ, ဒုက္ခံ သေတိ ပရာဇိတော;

ဥပသန္တော သုခံ သေတိ, ဟိတွာ ဇယပရာဇယံ.

Victory breeds hatred; the defeated one lies down in suffering. The peaceful one lies down happily, having abandoned victory and defeat.

၂၀၂.

202.

နတ္ထိ ရာဂသမော အဂ္ဂိ, နတ္ထိ ဒေါသသမော ကလိ;

နတ္ထိ ခန္ဓသမာ ဒုက္ခာ, နတ္ထိ သန္တိပရံ သုခံ.

There is no fire like lust, no evil like hatred. There is no suffering like the aggregates, no happiness higher than peace.

၂၀၃.

203.

ဇိဃစ္ဆာပရမာ ရောဂါ, သင်္ခါရပရမာ ဒုခါ;

ဧတံ ဉတွာ ယထာဘူတံ, နိဗ္ဗာနံ ပရမံ သုခံ.

Hunger is the greatest illness, conditioned phenomena the greatest suffering. Knowing this as it truly is, Nibbāna is the supreme happiness.

၂၀၄.

204.

အာရောဂျပရမာ လာဘာ, သန္တုဋ္ဌိပရမံ ဓနံ;

ဝိဿာသပရမာ ဉာတိ, နိဗ္ဗာနံ ပရမံ သုခံ.

Health is the highest gain, contentment the greatest wealth. A trustworthy person is the best kinsman, Nibbāna the supreme happiness.

၂၀၅.

205.

ပဝိဝေကရသံ ပိတွာ, ရသံ ဥပသမဿ စ;

နိဒ္ဒရော ဟောတိ နိပ္ပာပေါ, ဓမ္မပီတိရသံ ပိဝံ.

Having drunk the taste of solitude and the taste of peace, one becomes free from distress and evil, drinking the taste of joy in the Dhamma.

၂၀၆.

206.

သာဟု [Pg.44] ဒဿနမရိယာနံ, သန္နိဝါသော သဒါ သုခေါ;

အဒဿနေန ဗာလာနံ, နိစ္စမေဝ သုခီ သိယာ.

Good is the sight of the noble ones; to live with them is always a happiness. By not seeing fools, one would be constantly happy.

၂၀၇.

207.

ဗာလသင်္ဂတစာရီ ဟိ, ဒီဃမဒ္ဓါန သောစတိ;

ဒုက္ခော ဗာလေဟိ သံဝါသော, အမိတ္တေနေဝ သဗ္ဗဒါ;

ဓီရော စ သုခသံဝါသော, ဉာတီနံဝ သမာဂမော.

For one who keeps company with fools sorrows for a long time. Association with fools is always painful, as with an enemy; but association with the wise is pleasant, like a reunion with relatives.

၂၀၈.

208.

တသ္မာ ဟိ –ဓီရဉ္စ ပညဉ္စ ဗဟုဿုတဉ္စ, ဓောရယှသီလံ ဝတဝန္တမရိယံ;

တံ တာဒိသံ သပ္ပုရိသံ သုမေဓံ, ဘဇေထ နက္ခတ္တပထံဝ စန္ဒိမာ.

Therefore: one should follow a person who is wise, discerning, and learned, dutiful, virtuous, and noble. Follow such a good and wise person, as the moon follows the path of the stars.

သုခဝဂ္ဂေါ ပန္နရသမော နိဋ္ဌိတော.

The Chapter on Happiness, the Fifteenth, is concluded.

၁၆. ပိယဝဂ္ဂေါ

16. The Chapter on the Beloved

၂၀၉.

209.

အယောဂေ ယုဉ္ဇမတ္တာနံ, ယောဂသ္မိဉ္စ အယောဇယံ;

အတ္ထံ ဟိတွာ ပိယဂ္ဂါဟီ, ပိဟေတတ္တာနုယောဂိနံ.

Applying oneself to what is not fit, and not applying oneself to what is fit, abandoning the goal and grasping at the pleasant, one envies those who apply themselves.

၂၁၀.

210.

မာ ပိယေဟိ သမာဂဉ္ဆိ, အပ္ပိယေဟိ ကုဒါစနံ;

ပိယာနံ အဒဿနံ ဒုက္ခံ, အပ္ပိယာနဉ္စ ဒဿနံ.

Do not associate with the beloved, nor ever with the unloved. Not seeing the beloved is suffering, and seeing the unloved is also suffering.

၂၁၁.

211.

တသ္မာ ပိယံ န ကယိရာထ, ပိယာပါယော ဟိ ပါပကော;

ဂန္ထာ တေသံ န ဝိဇ္ဇန္တိ, ယေသံ နတ္ထိ ပိယာပ္ပိယံ.

Therefore, do not hold anything dear, for separation from the dear is painful. No bonds exist for those for whom there is neither beloved nor unloved.

၂၁၂.

212.

ပိယတော ဇာယတီ သောကော, ပိယတော ဇာယတီ ဘယံ;

ပိယတော ဝိပ္ပမုတ္တဿ, နတ္ထိ သောကော ကုတော ဘယံ.

From what is dear springs sorrow, from what is dear springs fear; for one freed from what is dear, there is no sorrow, whence fear?

၂၁၃.

213.

ပေမတော [Pg.45] ဇာယတီ သောကော, ပေမတော ဇာယတီ ဘယံ;

ပေမတော ဝိပ္ပမုတ္တဿ, နတ္ထိ သောကော ကုတော ဘယံ.

From affection springs sorrow, from affection springs fear; for one freed from affection, there is no sorrow, whence fear?

၂၁၄.

214.

ရတိယာ ဇာယတီ သောကော, ရတိယာ ဇာယတီ ဘယံ;

ရတိယာ ဝိပ္ပမုတ္တဿ, နတ္ထိ သောကော ကုတော ဘယံ.

From delight springs sorrow, from delight springs fear; for one freed from delight, there is no sorrow, whence fear?

၂၁၅.

215.

ကာမတော ဇာယတီ သောကော, ကာမတော ဇာယတီ ဘယံ;

ကာမတော ဝိပ္ပမုတ္တဿ, နတ္ထိ သောကော ကုတော ဘယံ.

From sensual pleasure springs sorrow, from sensual pleasure springs fear; for one freed from sensual pleasure, there is no sorrow, whence fear?

၂၁၆.

216.

တဏှာယ ဇာယတီ သောကော, တဏှာယ ဇာယတီ ဘယံ;

တဏှာယ ဝိပ္ပမုတ္တဿ, နတ္ထိ သောကော ကုတော ဘယံ.

From craving springs sorrow, from craving springs fear; for one freed from craving, there is no sorrow, whence fear?

၂၁၇.

217.

သီလဒဿနသမ္ပန္နံ, ဓမ္မဋ္ဌံ သစ္စဝေဒိနံ;

အတ္တနော ကမ္မ ကုဗ္ဗာနံ, တံ ဇနော ကုရုတေ ပိယံ.

One endowed with virtue and insight, established in the Dhamma, who knows the truth, and does their own work—such a one the people hold dear.

၂၁၈.

218.

ဆန္ဒဇာတော အနက္ခာတေ, မနသာ စ ဖုဋော သိယာ;

ကာမေသု စ အပ္ပဋိဗဒ္ဓစိတ္တော, ဥဒ္ဓံသောတောတိ ဝုစ္စတိ.

One in whom longing for the Undeclared has arisen, whose mind is suffused with it, and whose mind is not bound by sensual pleasures, is called an 'upstream-goer'.

၂၁၉.

219.

စိရပ္ပဝါသိံ ပုရိသံ, ဒူရတော သောတ္ထိမာဂတံ;

ဉာတိမိတ္တာ သုဟဇ္ဇာ စ, အဘိနန္ဒန္တိ အာဂတံ.

When a person long absent returns safely from afar, relatives, friends, and well-wishers rejoice at their arrival.

၂၂၀.

220.

တထေဝ ကတပုညမ္ပိ, အသ္မာ လောကာ ပရံ ဂတံ;

ပုညာနိ ပဋိဂဏှန္တိ, ပိယံ ဉာတီဝ အာဂတံ.

In the same way, when one who has done merit has gone from this world to the next, their merits receive them, as relatives welcome a loved one who has returned.

ပိယဝဂ္ဂေါ သောဠသမော နိဋ္ဌိတော.

The Chapter on the Beloved, the Sixteenth, is concluded.

၁၇. ကောဓဝဂ္ဂေါ

17. The Chapter on Anger

၂၂၁.

221.

ကောဓံ [Pg.46] ဇဟေ ဝိပ္ပဇဟေယျ မာနံ, သံယောဇနံ သဗ္ဗမတိက္ကမေယျ;

တံ နာမရူပသ္မိမသဇ္ဇမာနံ, အကိဉ္စနံ နာနုပတန္တိ ဒုက္ခာ.

One should abandon anger and relinquish conceit; one should overcome all fetters. Sufferings do not befall one who does not cling to name and form, and who is without possessions.

၂၂၂.

222.

ယော ဝေ ဥပ္ပတိတံ ကောဓံ, ရထံ ဘန္တံဝ ဝါရယေ ;

တမဟံ သာရထိံ ဗြူမိ, ရသ္မိဂ္ဂါဟော ဣတရော ဇနော.

Whoever restrains rising anger as one would a speeding chariot—that one I call a true charioteer; others merely hold the reins.

၂၂၃.

223.

အက္ကောဓေန ဇိနေ ကောဓံ, အသာဓုံ သာဓုနာ ဇိနေ;

ဇိနေ ကဒရိယံ ဒါနေန, သစ္စေနာလိကဝါဒိနံ.

Conquer anger with non-anger; conquer evil with good; conquer the miserly with generosity; conquer the liar with truth.

၂၂၄.

224.

သစ္စံ ဘဏေ န ကုဇ္ဈေယျ, ဒဇ္ဇာ အပ္ပမ္ပိ ယာစိတော;

ဧတေဟိ တီဟိ ဌာနေဟိ, ဂစ္ဆေ ဒေဝါန သန္တိကေ.

Speak the truth, do not become angry, and give, even if it is a little, when you are asked. By these three principles one may go into the presence of the gods.

၂၂၅.

225.

အဟိံသကာ ယေ မုနယော, နိစ္စံ ကာယေန သံဝုတာ;

တေ ယန္တိ အစ္စုတံ ဌာနံ, ယတ္ထ ဂန္တွာ န သောစရေ.

Those sages who are harmless, ever restrained in body, go to the unshakable state where, having gone, they do not grieve.

၂၂၆.

226.

သဒါ ဇာဂရမာနာနံ, အဟောရတ္တာနုသိက္ခိနံ;

နိဗ္ဗာနံ အဓိမုတ္တာနံ, အတ္ထံ ဂစ္ဆန္တိ အာသဝါ.

For those who are ever vigilant, who train day and night, who are intent on Nibbāna, the taints come to an end.

၂၂၇.

227.

ပေါရာဏမေတံ [Pg.47] အတုလ, နေတံ အဇ္ဇတနာမိဝ;

နိန္ဒန္တိ တုဏှိမာသီနံ, နိန္ဒန္တိ ဗဟုဘာဏိနံ;

မိတဘာဏိမ္ပိ နိန္ဒန္တိ, နတ္ထိ လောကေ အနိန္ဒိတော.

This is an ancient matter, Atula, not just of today: they blame one who sits in silence, they blame one who speaks much, and they blame one who speaks in moderation; there is no one in the world who is not blamed.

၂၂၈.

228.

န စာဟု န စ ဘဝိဿတိ, န စေတရဟိ ဝိဇ္ဇတိ;

ဧကန္တံ နိန္ဒိတော ပေါသော, ဧကန္တံ ဝါ ပသံသိတော.

There never was, nor will there ever be, nor is there now, a person who is wholly blamed or wholly praised.

၂၂၉.

229.

ယံ စေ ဝိညူ ပသံသန္တိ, အနုဝိစ္စ သုဝေ သုဝေ;

အစ္ဆိဒ္ဒဝုတ္တိံ မေဓာဝိံ, ပညာသီလသမာဟိတံ.

But the one whom the wise praise, having observed day after day—one of flawless conduct, intelligent, endowed with wisdom and virtue—

၂၃၀.

230.

နိက္ခံ ဇမ္ဗောနဒဿေဝ, ကော တံ နိန္ဒိတုမရဟတိ;

ဒေဝါပိ နံ ပသံသန္တိ, ဗြဟ္မုနာပိ ပသံသိတော.

Who is worthy to blame one such as this, who is like a coin of refined gold? Even the gods praise them; by Brahmā too are they praised.

၂၃၁.

231.

ကာယပ္ပကောပံ ရက္ခေယျ, ကာယေန သံဝုတော သိယာ;

ကာယဒုစ္စရိတံ ဟိတွာ, ကာယေန သုစရိတံ စရေ.

One should guard against bodily agitation, and be restrained in body; having abandoned bodily misconduct, one should practice good conduct with the body.

၂၃၂.

232.

ဝစီပကောပံ ရက္ခေယျ, ဝါစာယ သံဝုတော သိယာ;

ဝစီဒုစ္စရိတံ ဟိတွာ, ဝါစာယ သုစရိတံ စရေ.

One should guard against verbal agitation, and be restrained in speech; having abandoned verbal misconduct, one should practice good conduct with speech.

၂၃၃.

233.

မနောပကောပံ ရက္ခေယျ, မနသာ သံဝုတော သိယာ;

မနောဒုစ္စရိတံ ဟိတွာ, မနသာ သုစရိတံ စရေ.

One should guard against mental agitation, and be restrained in mind; having abandoned mental misconduct, one should practice good conduct with the mind.

၂၃၄.

234.

ကာယေန သံဝုတာ ဓီရာ, အထော ဝါစာယ သံဝုတာ;

မနသာ သံဝုတာ ဓီရာ, တေ ဝေ သုပရိသံဝုတာ.

The wise are restrained in body, and also restrained in speech; the wise are restrained in mind—they are indeed perfectly restrained.

ကောဓဝဂ္ဂေါ သတ္တရသမော နိဋ္ဌိတော.

The Chapter on Anger, the Seventeenth, is Finished.

၁၈. မလဝဂ္ဂေါ

18. The Chapter on Stains

၂၃၅.

235.

ပဏ္ဍုပလာသောဝ ဒါနိသိ, ယမပုရိသာပိ စ တေ ဥပဋ္ဌိတာ;

ဥယျောဂမုခေ စ တိဋ္ဌသိ, ပါထေယျမ္ပိ စ တေ န ဝိဇ္ဇတိ.

Like a withered leaf are you now, and the messengers of death are at hand; you stand at the doorway of departure, and you have no provisions for your journey.

၂၃၆.

236.

သော [Pg.48] ကရောဟိ ဒီပမတ္တနော, ခိပ္ပံ ဝါယမ ပဏ္ဍိတော ဘဝ;

နိဒ္ဓန္တမလော အနင်္ဂဏော, ဒိဗ္ဗံ အရိယဘူမိံ ဥပေဟိသိ.

Make an island for yourself, strive quickly, become wise! Rid of impurities, unstained, you will reach the divine, noble state.

၂၃၇.

237.

ဥပနီတဝယော စ ဒါနိသိ, သမ္ပယာတောသိ ယမဿ သန္တိကေ;

ဝါသော တေ နတ္ထိ အန္တရာ, ပါထေယျမ္ပိ စ တေ န ဝိဇ္ဇတိ.

Your life has now come to an end, you are approaching the presence of Yama; there is no resting place for you in between, and you have no provisions for the journey.

၂၃၈.

238.

သော ကရောဟိ ဒီပမတ္တနော, ခိပ္ပံ ဝါယမ ပဏ္ဍိတော ဘဝ;

နိဒ္ဓန္တမလော အနင်္ဂဏော, န ပုနံ ဇာတိဇရံ ဥပေဟိသိ.

Make an island for yourself! Strive quickly, become wise! Cleansed of impurities, stainless, you will not come again to birth and old age.

၂၃၉.

239.

အနုပုဗ္ဗေန မေဓာဝီ, ထောကံ ထောကံ ခဏေ ခဏေ;

ကမ္မာရော ရဇတဿေဝ, နိဒ္ဓမေ မလမတ္တနော.

Gradually, little by little, from moment to moment, the wise person removes their own impurities, like a smith removing dross from silver.

၂၄၀.

240.

အယသာဝ မလံ သမုဋ္ဌိတံ, တတုဋ္ဌာယ တမေဝ ခါဒတိ;

ဧဝံ အတိဓောနစာရိနံ, သာနိ ကမ္မာနိ နယန္တိ ဒုဂ္ဂတိံ.

Just as rust arises from iron and corrodes the very iron from which it arises, so too do one's own deeds lead the overindulgent to a bad destination.

၂၄၁.

241.

အသဇ္ဈာယမလာ မန္တာ, အနုဋ္ဌာနမလာ ဃရာ;

မလံ ဝဏ္ဏဿ ကောသဇ္ဇံ, ပမာဒေါ ရက္ခတော မလံ.

Recitations are marred by lack of repetition, homes by lack of upkeep; laziness is the stain of beauty, heedlessness the stain of a guardian.

၂၄၂.

242.

မလိတ္ထိယာ ဒုစ္စရိတံ, မစ္ဆေရံ ဒဒတော မလံ;

မလာ ဝေ ပါပကာ ဓမ္မာ, အသ္မိံ လောကေ ပရမှိ စ.

Misconduct is a stain for a woman, stinginess is the stain of a giver; truly, evil qualities are stains in this world and the next.

၂၄၃.

243.

တတော မလာ မလတရံ, အဝိဇ္ဇာ ပရမံ မလံ;

ဧတံ မလံ ပဟန္တွာန, နိမ္မလာ ဟောထ ဘိက္ခဝေါ.

But worse than these stains is ignorance, the ultimate stain. Having abandoned this stain, be stainless, O monks!

၂၄၄.

244.

သုဇီဝံ အဟိရိကေန, ကာကသူရေန ဓံသိနာ;

ပက္ခန္ဒိနာ ပဂဗ္ဘေန, သံကိလိဋ္ဌေန ဇီဝိတံ.

Easy is life for the shameless, the brazen, the ruinous, the impetuous, the arrogant, the corrupt.

၂၄၅.

245.

ဟိရီမတာ [Pg.49] စ ဒုဇ္ဇီဝံ, နိစ္စံ သုစိဂဝေသိနာ;

အလီနေနာပ္ပဂဗ္ဘေန, သုဒ္ဓါဇီဝေန ပဿတာ.

Hard is life for the modest, ever seeking purity, detached, unassuming, pure in livelihood, discerning.

၂၄၆.

246.

ယော ပါဏမတိပါတေတိ, မုသာဝါဒဉ္စ ဘာသတိ;

လောကေ အဒိန္နမာဒိယတိ, ပရဒါရဉ္စ ဂစ္ဆတိ.

One who destroys life, and speaks falsehood; takes what is not given in the world, and goes to another's wife.

၂၄၇.

247.

သုရာမေရယပါနဉ္စ, ယော နရော အနုယုဉ္ဇတိ;

ဣဓေဝမေသော လောကသ္မိံ, မူလံ ခဏတိ အတ္တနော.

and one who is devoted to intoxicants undermines his own roots in this very world.

၂၄၈.

248.

ဧဝံ ဘော ပုရိသ ဇာနာဟိ, ပါပဓမ္မာ အသညတာ;

မာ တံ လောဘော အဓမ္မော စ, စိရံ ဒုက္ခာယ ရန္ဓယုံ.

Know this, O man: evil qualities are unrestrained. Do not let greed and unrighteousness bring you long-lasting suffering.

၂၄၉.

249.

ဒဒါတိ ဝေ ယထာသဒ္ဓံ, ယထာပသာဒနံ ဇနော;

တတ္ထ ယော မင်္ကု ဘဝတိ, ပရေသံ ပါနဘောဇနေ;

န သော ဒိဝါ ဝါ ရတ္တိံ ဝါ, သမာဓိမဓိဂစ္ဆတိ.

People give according to faith, according to their inspiration. Whoever is grudging concerning the drink and food of others does not attain concentration by day or night.

၂၅၀.

250.

ယဿ စေတံ သမုစ္ဆိန္နံ, မူလဃစ္စံ သမူဟတံ;

သ ဝေ ဒိဝါ ဝါ ရတ္တိံ ဝါ, သမာဓိမဓိဂစ္ဆတိ.

But one who has cut off this, uprooted and destroyed its root, attains concentration by day or night.

၂၅၁.

251.

နတ္ထိ ရာဂသမော အဂ္ဂိ, နတ္ထိ ဒေါသသမော ဂဟော;

နတ္ထိ မောဟသမံ ဇာလံ, နတ္ထိ တဏှာသမာ နဒီ.

There is no fire like lust, no grip like hate, no net like delusion, no river like craving.

၂၅၂.

252.

သုဒဿံ ဝဇ္ဇမညေသံ, အတ္တနော ပန ဒုဒ္ဒသံ;

ပရေသံ ဟိ သော ဝဇ္ဇာနိ, ဩပုနာတိ ယထာ ဘုသံ;

အတ္တနော ပန ဆာဒေတိ, ကလိံဝ ကိတဝါ သဌော.

It is easy to see the faults of others, but difficult to see one's own. One sifts out the faults of others like chaff, but hides one's own faults as a crafty gambler hides a losing throw.

၂၅၃.

253.

ပရဝဇ္ဇာနုပဿိဿ[Pg.50], နိစ္စံ ဥဇ္ဈာနသညိနော;

အာသဝါ တဿ ဝဍ္ဎန္တိ, အာရာ သော အာသဝက္ခယာ.

One who is always focused on the faults of others, ever resentful—his defilements increase. He is far from the destruction of defilements.

၂၅၄.

254.

အာကာသေဝ ပဒံ နတ္ထိ, သမဏော နတ္ထိ ဗာဟိရေ;

ပပဉ္စာဘိရတာ ပဇာ, နိပ္ပပဉ္စာ တထာဂတာ.

There is no footprint in the sky; there is no true ascetic outside (the Buddha's teaching). People delight in proliferation; the Tathāgatas are without proliferation.

၂၅၅.

255.

အာကာသေဝ ပဒံ နတ္ထိ, သမဏော နတ္ထိ ဗာဟိရေ;

သင်္ခါရာ သဿတာ နတ္ထိ, နတ္ထိ ဗုဒ္ဓါနမိဉ္ဇိတံ.

There is no footprint in the sky; there is no recluse outside (the Buddha's teaching); conditioned things are not eternal; there is no wavering in the Buddhas.

မလဝဂ္ဂေါ အဋ္ဌာရသမော နိဋ္ဌိတော.

The Chapter on Stains, the Eighteenth, is Finished.

၁၉. ဓမ္မဋ္ဌဝဂ္ဂေါ

19. The Chapter on the Just

၂၅၆.

256.

န တေန ဟောတိ ဓမ္မဋ္ဌော, ယေနတ္ထံ သာဟသာ နယေ;

ယော စ အတ္ထံ အနတ္ထဉ္စ, ဥဘော နိစ္ဆေယျ ပဏ္ဍိတော.

One is not thereby just because one settles a case hastily. The wise person is one who investigates both what is right and what is wrong.

၂၅၇.

257.

အသာဟသေန ဓမ္မေန, သမေန နယတီ ပရေ;

ဓမ္မဿ ဂုတ္တော မေဓာဝီ, ‘‘ဓမ္မဋ္ဌော’’တိ ပဝုစ္စတိ.

He who guides others impartially and non-violently, in accordance with the Dhamma—that wise one, guarded by the Dhamma, is called 'one who is just.'

၂၅၈.

258.

န တေန ပဏ္ဍိတော ဟောတိ, ယာဝတာ ဗဟု ဘာသတိ;

ခေမီ အဝေရီ အဘယော, ‘‘ပဏ္ဍိတော’’တိ ပဝုစ္စတိ.

One is not wise merely because one speaks much. He who is secure, without hate, and fearless is called 'a wise one.'

၂၅၉.

259.

န တာဝတာ ဓမ္မဓရော, ယာဝတာ ဗဟု ဘာသတိ;

ယော စ အပ္ပမ္ပိ သုတွာန, ဓမ္မံ ကာယေန ပဿတိ;

သ ဝေ ဓမ္မဓရော ဟောတိ, ယော ဓမ္မံ နပ္ပမဇ္ဇတိ.

One is not a bearer of the Dhamma merely because one speaks much. But whoever, having heard even a little, personally experiences the Dhamma and is not heedless of it, he is truly a bearer of the Dhamma.

၂၆၀.

260.

န [Pg.51] တေန ထေရော သော ဟောတိ, ယေနဿ ပလိတံ သိရော;

ပရိပက္ကော ဝယော တဿ, ‘‘မောဃဇိဏ္ဏော’’တိ ဝုစ္စတိ.

He is not an elder just because his head is gray; ripe is his age, but he is called 'one grown old in vain.'

၂၆၁.

261.

ယမှိ သစ္စဉ္စ ဓမ္မော စ, အဟိံသာ သံယမော ဒမော;

သ ဝေ ဝန္တမလော ဓီရော, ‘‘ထေရော’’ ဣတိ ပဝုစ္စတိ.

He in whom there are truth, Dhamma, non-harming, restraint, and self-control—that steadfast one, who has cast out impurities, is called an 'elder.'

၂၆၂.

262.

န ဝါက္ကရဏမတ္တေန, ဝဏ္ဏပေါက္ခရတာယ ဝါ;

သာဓုရူပေါ နရော ဟောတိ, ဣဿုကီ မစ္ဆရီ သဌော.

Not by mere eloquence, nor by a beautiful complexion, does an envious, selfish, and deceitful person become a person of good character.

၂၆၃.

263.

ယဿ စေတံ သမုစ္ဆိန္နံ, မူလဃစ္စံ သမူဟတံ;

သ ဝန္တဒေါသော မေဓာဝီ, ‘‘သာဓုရူပေါ’’တိ ဝုစ္စတိ.

But he in whom this is utterly cut off, destroyed at the root, eradicated—that wise one, who has cast out faults, is called 'a person of good character.'

၂၆၄.

264.

န မုဏ္ဍကေန သမဏော, အဗ္ဗတော အလိကံ ဘဏံ;

ဣစ္ဆာလောဘသမာပန္နော, သမဏော ကိံ ဘဝိဿတိ.

Not by a shaven head is one a Samaṇa, if undisciplined and speaking falsehood; filled with desire and greed, how can one be a Samaṇa?

၂၆၅.

265.

ယော စ သမေတိ ပါပါနိ, အဏုံ ထူလာနိ သဗ္ဗသော;

သမိတတ္တာ ဟိ ပါပါနံ, ‘‘သမဏော’’တိ ပဝုစ္စတိ.

But he who has pacified evils altogether, both small and great—he is called a 'recluse' because he has pacified evils.

၂၆၆.

266.

န တေန ဘိက္ခု သော ဟောတိ, ယာဝတာ ဘိက္ခတေ ပရေ;

ဝိဿံ ဓမ္မံ သမာဒါယ, ဘိက္ခု ဟောတိ န တာဝတာ.

One is not a monk merely by begging from others; by adopting a corrupt practice, one does not on that account become a monk.

၂၆၇.

267.

ယောဓ ပုညဉ္စ ပါပဉ္စ, ဗာဟေတွာ ဗြဟ္မစရိယဝါ ;

သင်္ခါယ လောကေ စရတိ, သ ဝေ ‘‘ဘိက္ခူ’’တိ ဝုစ္စတိ.

He who in this world has set aside both merit and evil, and lives the holy life, faring with full understanding—he, indeed, is called a 'monk.'

၂၆၈.

268.

န မောနေန မုနီ ဟောတိ, မူဠှရူပေါ အဝိဒ္ဒသု;

ယော စ တုလံဝ ပဂ္ဂယှ, ဝရမာဒါယ ပဏ္ဍိတော.

One does not become a sage by observing silence if one is deluded and ignorant. The wise one is he who, as if holding a scale, takes up what is best.

၂၆၉.

269.

ပါပါနိ [Pg.52] ပရိဝဇ္ဇေတိ, သ မုနီ တေန သော မုနိ;

ယော မုနာတိ ဥဘော လောကေ, ‘‘မုနိ’’ တေန ပဝုစ္စတိ.

He who avoids evils is a sage; by that he is a sage. He who comprehends both worlds is, on that account, called a 'sage'.

၂၇၀.

270.

န တေန အရိယော ဟောတိ, ယေန ပါဏာနိ ဟိံသတိ;

အဟိံသာ သဗ္ဗပါဏာနံ, ‘‘အရိယော’’တိ ပဝုစ္စတိ.

One is not noble because one harms living beings. Through non-harming toward all living beings, one is called 'noble.'

၂၇၁.

271.

န သီလဗ္ဗတမတ္တေန, ဗာဟုသစ္စေန ဝါ ပန;

အထ ဝါ သမာဓိလာဘေန, ဝိဝိတ္တသယနေန ဝါ.

Not merely by virtue and observances, nor by much learning, nor by the attainment of concentration, nor by dwelling in seclusion,

၂၇၂.

272.

ဖုသာမိ နေက္ခမ္မသုခံ, အပုထုဇ္ဇနသေဝိတံ;

ဘိက္ခု ဝိဿာသမာပါဒိ, အပ္ပတ္တော အာသဝက္ခယံ.

(Thinking,) 'I experience the bliss of renunciation, not enjoyed by worldlings'—O monk, do not be confident so long as you have not attained the destruction of the taints.

ဓမ္မဋ္ဌဝဂ္ဂေါ ဧကူနဝီသတိမော နိဋ္ဌိတော.

The Chapter on the Just, the Nineteenth, is concluded.

၂၀. မဂ္ဂဝဂ္ဂေါ

20. The Chapter on the Path

၂၇၃.

273.

မဂ္ဂါနဋ္ဌင်္ဂိကော သေဋ္ဌော, သစ္စာနံ စတုရော ပဒါ;

ဝိရာဂေါ သေဋ္ဌော ဓမ္မာနံ, ဒွိပဒါနဉ္စ စက္ခုမာ.

Of paths, the Eightfold Path is the best; of truths, the Four Noble Truths; of states, dispassion is the best; and of two-footed beings, the one with vision is the best.

၂၇၄.

274.

ဧသေဝ မဂ္ဂေါ နတ္ထညော, ဒဿနဿ ဝိသုဒ္ဓိယာ;

ဧတဉှိ တုမှေ ပဋိပဇ္ဇထ, မာရဿေတံ ပမောဟနံ.

This is the only path; there is no other for the purification of vision. Enter upon this path; it is the bewilderment of Māra.

၂၇၅.

275.

ဧတဉှိ တုမှေ ပဋိပန္နာ, ဒုက္ခဿန္တံ ကရိဿထ;

အက္ခာတော ဝေါ မယာ မဂ္ဂေါ, အညာယ သလ္လကန္တနံ.

By entering upon this path, you will make an end of suffering. I have declared to you the path, having known the extraction of the dart.

၂၇၆.

276.

တုမှေဟိ ကိစ္စမာတပ္ပံ, အက္ခာတာရော တထာဂတာ;

ပဋိပန္နာ ပမောက္ခန္တိ, ဈာယိနော မာရဗန္ဓနာ.

You yourselves must make the effort; the Tathāgatas are only teachers. Those who enter the path and meditate are released from the bonds of Māra.

၂၇၇.

277.

‘‘သဗ္ဗေ [Pg.53] သင်္ခါရာ အနိစ္စာ’’တိ, ယဒါ ပညာယ ပဿတိ;

အထ နိဗ္ဗိန္ဒတိ ဒုက္ခေ, ဧသ မဂ္ဂေါ ဝိသုဒ္ဓိယာ.

"All conditioned phenomena are impermanent"—when one sees this with wisdom, one grows weary of suffering; this is the path to purification.

၂၇၈.

278.

‘‘သဗ္ဗေ သင်္ခါရာ ဒုက္ခာ’’တိ, ယဒါ ပညာယ ပဿတိ;

အထ နိဗ္ဗိန္ဒတိ ဒုက္ခေ, ဧသ မဂ္ဂေါ ဝိသုဒ္ဓိယာ.

"All conditioned phenomena are suffering"—when one sees this with wisdom, one grows weary of suffering; this is the path to purification.

၂၇၉.

279.

‘‘သဗ္ဗေ ဓမ္မာ အနတ္တာ’’တိ, ယဒါ ပညာယ ပဿတိ;

အထ နိဗ္ဗိန္ဒတိ ဒုက္ခေ, ဧသ မဂ္ဂေါ ဝိသုဒ္ဓိယာ.

"All phenomena are not-self"—when one sees this with wisdom, one grows weary of suffering; this is the path to purification.

၂၈၀.

280.

ဥဋ္ဌာနကာလမှိ အနုဋ္ဌဟာနော, ယုဝါ ဗလီ အာလသိယံ ဥပေတော;

သံသန္နသင်္ကပ္ပမနော ကုသီတော, ပညာယ မဂ္ဂံ အလသော န ဝိန္ဒတိ.

He who does not rouse himself when it is time to rise, who, though young and strong, is full of sloth, whose thoughts and resolutions are sunken and lazy—such an indolent person does not find the path to wisdom.

၂၈၁.

281.

ဝါစာနုရက္ခီ မနသာ သုသံဝုတော, ကာယေန စ နာကုသလံ ကယိရာ ;

ဧတေ တယော ကမ္မပထေ ဝိသောဓယေ, အာရာဓယေ မဂ္ဂမိသိပ္ပဝေဒိတံ.

Watchful over speech, well-restrained in mind, and doing no unwholesome deed with the body—one should purify these three paths of action and fulfill the path taught by the seers.

၂၈၂.

282.

ယောဂါ ဝေ ဇာယတီ ဘူရိ, အယောဂါ ဘူရိသင်္ခယော;

ဧတံ ဒွေဓာပထံ ဉတွာ, ဘဝါယ ဝိဘဝါယ စ;

တထာတ္တာနံ နိဝေသေယျ, ယထာ ဘူရိ ပဝဍ္ဎတိ.

From application wisdom is born; from non-application, wisdom declines. Knowing this twofold path for progression and decline, let one establish oneself so that wisdom may increase.

၂၈၃.

283.

ဝနံ [Pg.54] ဆိန္ဒထ မာ ရုက္ခံ, ဝနတော ဇာယတေ ဘယံ;

ဆေတွာ ဝနဉ္စ ဝနထဉ္စ, နိဗ္ဗနာ ဟောထ ဘိက္ခဝေါ.

Cut down the forest of craving, not the tree. From the forest of craving fear is born. Having cut down both the forest and its undergrowth, O monks, be free from the forest of craving.

၂၈၄.

284.

ယာဝ ဟိ ဝနထော န ဆိဇ္ဇတိ, အဏုမတ္တောပိ နရဿ နာရိသု;

ပဋိဗဒ္ဓမနောဝ တာဝ သော, ဝစ္ဆော ခီရပကောဝ မာတရိ.

So long as even the slightest craving of a man for women is not cut off, his mind remains bound, like a suckling calf to its mother.

၂၈၅.

285.

ဥစ္ဆိန္ဒ သိနေဟမတ္တနော ကုမုဒံ သာရဒိကံဝ ;

သန္တိမဂ္ဂမေဝ ဗြူဟယ, နိဗ္ဗာနံ သုဂတေန ဒေသိတံ.

Cut off your own affection, as one plucks an autumn lily with the hand. Cultivate the very path to peace, Nibbāna, which has been taught by the Well-Farer.

၂၈၆.

286.

ဣဓ ဝဿံ ဝသိဿာမိ, ဣဓ ဟေမန္တဂိမှိသု;

ဣတိ ဗာလော ဝိစိန္တေတိ, အန္တရာယံ န ဗုဇ္ဈတိ.

"Here I will dwell during the rains, here in winter and summer," so thinks the fool, not perceiving the danger.

၂၈၇.

287.

တံ ပုတ္တပသုသမ္မတ္တံ, ဗျာသတ္တမနသံ နရံ;

သုတ္တံ ဂါမံ မဟောဃောဝ, မစ္စု အာဒါယ ဂစ္ဆတိ.

That man who is infatuated with children and cattle, whose mind is clinging—death carries him away as a great flood sweeps away a sleeping village.

၂၈၈.

288.

န သန္တိ ပုတ္တာ တာဏာယ, န ပိတာ နာပိ ဗန္ဓဝါ;

အန္တကေနာဓိပန္နဿ, နတ္ထိ ဉာတီသု တာဏတာ.

There are no sons for one's protection, nor a father, nor any relatives. For one who is seized by the End-maker, there is no protection to be found among one's kin.

၂၈၉.

289.

ဧတမတ္ထဝသံ ဉတွာ, ပဏ္ဍိတော သီလသံဝုတော;

နိဗ္ဗာနဂမနံ မဂ္ဂံ, ခိပ္ပမေဝ ဝိသောဓယေ.

Having understood the significance of this, the wise one, restrained by virtue, should quickly clear the path leading to Nibbāna.

မဂ္ဂဝဂ္ဂေါ ဝီသတိမော နိဋ္ဌိတော.

The Chapter on the Path, the Twentieth, is concluded.

၂၁. ပကိဏ္ဏကဝဂ္ဂေါ

21. The Miscellaneous Chapter

၂၉၀.

290.

မတ္တာသုခပရိစ္စာဂါ[Pg.55], ပဿေ စေ ဝိပုလံ သုခံ;

စဇေ မတ္တာသုခံ ဓီရော, သမ္ပဿံ ဝိပုလံ သုခံ.

If by renouncing a limited happiness one might see an abundant happiness, the wise one should renounce the limited happiness, having seen the abundant happiness.

၂၉၁.

291.

ပရဒုက္ခူပဓာနေန, အတ္တနော သုခမိစ္ဆတိ;

ဝေရသံသဂ္ဂသံသဋ္ဌော, ဝေရာ သော န ပရိမုစ္စတိ.

He who seeks his own happiness by inflicting suffering on others, being entangled in the bonds of hatred, is not freed from hatred.

၂၉၂.

292.

ယဉှိ ကိစ္စံ အပဝိဒ္ဓံ, အကိစ္စံ ပန ကယိရတိ;

ဥန္နဠာနံ ပမတ္တာနံ, တေသံ ဝဍ္ဎန္တိ အာသဝါ.

What should be done is neglected, what should not be done is done; for the arrogant and heedless, their taints increase.

၂၉၃.

293.

ယေသဉ္စ သုသမာရဒ္ဓါ, နိစ္စံ ကာယဂတာ သတိ;

အကိစ္စံ တေ န သေဝန္တိ, ကိစ္စေ သာတစ္စကာရိနော;

သတာနံ သမ္ပဇာနာနံ, အတ္ထံ ဂစ္ဆန္တိ အာသဝါ.

But for those whose mindfulness directed to the body is always well established, who do not pursue what should not be done and are persistent in doing what should be done—for such mindful and clearly comprehending ones, the taints go to destruction.

၂၉၄.

294.

မာတရံ ပိတရံ ဟန္တွာ, ရာဇာနော ဒွေ စ ခတ္တိယေ;

ရဋ္ဌံ သာနုစရံ ဟန္တွာ, အနီဃော ယာတိ ဗြာဟ္မဏော.

Having slain mother and father, and two warrior kings, and having destroyed the kingdom with its retinue, the brahmin goes untroubled.

၂၉၅.

295.

မာတရံ ပိတရံ ဟန္တွာ, ရာဇာနော ဒွေ စ သောတ္ထိယေ;

ဝေယဂ္ဃပဉ္စမံ ဟန္တွာ, အနီဃော ယာတိ ဗြာဟ္မဏော.

Having slain mother and father, and two brahmin kings, and having slain the tiger as the fifth, the brahmin goes untroubled.

၂၉၆.

296.

သုပ္ပဗုဒ္ဓံ ပဗုဇ္ဈန္တိ, သဒါ ဂေါတမသာဝကာ;

ယေသံ ဒိဝါ စ ရတ္တော စ, နိစ္စံ ဗုဒ္ဓဂတာ သတိ.

The disciples of Gotama are always well-awakened, they whose mindfulness by day and by night is constantly directed to the Buddha.

၂၉၇.

297.

သုပ္ပဗုဒ္ဓံ ပဗုဇ္ဈန္တိ, သဒါ ဂေါတမသာဝကာ;

ယေသံ ဒိဝါ စ ရတ္တော စ, နိစ္စံ ဓမ္မဂတာ သတိ.

The disciples of Gotama are always well-awakened, they whose mindfulness by day and by night is constantly directed to the Dhamma.

၂၉၈.

298.

သုပ္ပဗုဒ္ဓံ [Pg.56] ပဗုဇ္ဈန္တိ, သဒါ ဂေါတမသာဝကာ;

ယေသံ ဒိဝါ စ ရတ္တော စ, နိစ္စံ သံဃဂတာ သတိ.

The disciples of Gotama are always well-awakened, they whose mindfulness by day and by night is constantly directed to the Sangha.

၂၉၉.

299.

သုပ္ပဗုဒ္ဓံ ပဗုဇ္ဈန္တိ, သဒါ ဂေါတမသာဝကာ;

ယေသံ ဒိဝါ စ ရတ္တော စ, နိစ္စံ ကာယဂတာ သတိ.

The disciples of Gotama are always well-awakened, they whose mindfulness by day and by night is constantly directed to the body.

၃၀၀.

300.

သုပ္ပဗုဒ္ဓံ ပဗုဇ္ဈန္တိ, သဒါ ဂေါတမသာဝကာ;

ယေသံ ဒိဝါ စ ရတ္တော စ, အဟိံသာယ ရတော မနော.

The disciples of Gotama are always well-awakened, they whose minds by day and by night delight in harmlessness.

၃၀၁.

301.

သုပ္ပဗုဒ္ဓံ ပဗုဇ္ဈန္တိ, သဒါ ဂေါတမသာဝကာ;

ယေသံ ဒိဝါ စ ရတ္တော စ, ဘာဝနာယ ရတော မနော.

The disciples of Gotama are always well-awakened, they whose minds by day and by night delight in mental development.

၃၀၂.

302.

ဒုပ္ပဗ္ဗဇ္ဇံ ဒုရဘိရမံ, ဒုရာဝါသာ ဃရာ ဒုခါ;

ဒုက္ခောသမာနသံဝါသော, ဒုက္ခာနုပတိတဒ္ဓဂူ;

တသ္မာ န စဒ္ဓဂူ သိယာ, န စ ဒုက္ခာနုပတိတော သိယာ.

Difficult is the going forth, difficult to delight in. Difficult and painful is the household life. Painful is association with those unequal. The wayfarer is beset by suffering. Therefore, do not be a wayfarer; do not be one beset by suffering.

၃၀၃.

303.

သဒ္ဓေါ သီလေန သမ္ပန္နော, ယသောဘောဂသမပ္ပိတော;

ယံ ယံ ပဒေသံ ဘဇတိ, တတ္ထ တတ္ထေဝ ပူဇိတော.

One who has faith, is accomplished in virtue, and is endowed with fame and wealth, is honored wherever he goes.

၃၀၄.

304.

ဒူရေ သန္တော ပကာသေန္တိ, ဟိမဝန္တောဝ ပဗ္ဗတော;

အသန္တေတ္ထ န ဒိဿန္တိ, ရတ္တိံ ခိတ္တာ ယထာ သရာ.

The good shine from afar like the Himalaya mountain; but the wicked are not seen here, like arrows shot in the night.

၃၀၅.

305.

ဧကာသနံ ဧကသေယျံ, ဧကော စရမတန္ဒိတော;

ဧကော ဒမယမတ္တာနံ, ဝနန္တေ ရမိတော သိယာ.

Sitting alone, lying down alone, wandering alone and unwearied, one who tames himself alone should find delight in the forest.

ပကိဏ္ဏကဝဂ္ဂေါ ဧကဝီသတိမော နိဋ္ဌိတော.

The Miscellaneous Chapter, the Twenty-first, is concluded.

၂၂. နိရယဝဂ္ဂေါ

22. The Chapter on Hell

၃၀၆.

306.

အဘူတဝါဒီ [Pg.57] နိရယံ ဥပေတိ, ယော ဝါပိ ကတွာ န ကရောမိ စာဟ ;

ဥဘောပိ တေ ပေစ္စ သမာ ဘဝန္တိ, နိဟီနကမ္မာ မနုဇာ ပရတ္ထ.

One who speaks falsely goes to hell, and so does one who, having done a deed, says, 'I did not do it.' Both of them, being people of base actions, become equal in the next world after death.

၃၀၇.

307.

ကာသာဝကဏ္ဌာ ဗဟဝေါ, ပါပဓမ္မာ အသညတာ;

ပါပါ ပါပေဟိ ကမ္မေဟိ, နိရယံ တေ ဥပပဇ္ဇရေ.

Many with saffron robes around their necks are of evil character and unrestrained. These evil ones, through their evil deeds, are reborn in hell.

၃၀၈.

308.

သေယျော အယောဂုဠော ဘုတ္တော, တတ္တော အဂ္ဂိသိခူပမော;

ယဉ္စေ ဘုဉ္ဇေယျ ဒုဿီလော, ရဋ္ဌပိဏ္ဍမသညတော.

Better to swallow a hot iron ball, like a flame of fire, than that an immoral and unrestrained person should eat the alms-food of the country.

၃၀၉.

309.

စတ္တာရိ ဌာနာနိ နရော ပမတ္တော, အာပဇ္ဇတိ ပရဒါရူပသေဝီ;

အပုညလာဘံ န နိကာမသေယျံ, နိန္ဒံ တတီယံ နိရယံ စတုတ္ထံ.

A heedless man who consorts with another's wife incurs four misfortunes: acquisition of demerit; a bed without comfort; thirdly, blame; and fourthly, hell.

၃၁၀.

310.

အပုညလာဘော စ ဂတီ စ ပါပိကာ, ဘီတဿ ဘီတာယ ရတီ စ ထောကိကာ;

ရာဇာ စ ဒဏ္ဍံ ဂရုကံ ပဏေတိ, တသ္မာ နရော ပရဒါရံ န သေဝေ.

There is acquisition of demerit and an evil destination; brief is the pleasure of the frightened man with the frightened woman; and the king imposes a heavy penalty. Therefore a man should not consort with another’s wife.

၃၁၁.

311.

ကုသော ယထာ ဒုဂ္ဂဟိတော, ဟတ္ထမေဝါနုကန္တတိ;

သာမညံ ဒုပ္ပရာမဋ္ဌံ, နိရယာယုပကဍ္ဎတိ.

Just as kusa grass, when wrongly grasped, cuts the hand, so the ascetic life, when wrongly handled, drags one down to hell.

၃၁၂.

312.

ယံ [Pg.58] ကိဉ္စိ သိထိလံ ကမ္မံ, သံကိလိဋ္ဌဉ္စ ယံ ဝတံ;

သင်္ကဿရံ ဗြဟ္မစရိယံ, န တံ ဟောတိ မဟပ္ဖလံ.

Any slack action, any defiled observance, a holy life practiced with misgiving—this does not bring a great fruit.

၃၁၃.

313.

ကယိရာ စေ ကယိရာထေနံ, ဒဠှမေနံ ပရက္ကမေ;

သိထိလော ဟိ ပရိဗ္ဗာဇော, ဘိယျော အာကိရတေ ရဇံ.

If a deed is to be done, one should do it with vigor. A lax renunciant only stirs up more dust.

၃၁၄.

314.

အကတံ ဒုက္ကဋံ သေယျော, ပစ္ဆာ တပ္ပတိ ဒုက္ကဋံ;

ကတဉ္စ သုကတံ သေယျော, ယံ ကတွာ နာနုတပ္ပတိ.

Better is an evil deed left undone, for an evil deed torments one later. Better is a good deed done, which, having been done, does not lead to remorse.

၃၁၅.

315.

နဂရံ ယထာ ပစ္စန္တံ, ဂုတ္တံ သန္တရဗာဟိရံ;

ဧဝံ ဂေါပေထ အတ္တာနံ, ခဏော ဝေါ မာ ဥပစ္စဂါ;

ခဏာတီတာ ဟိ သောစန္တိ, နိရယမှိ သမပ္ပိတာ.

Just as a frontier city is guarded within and without, so should you guard yourself. Do not let the opportune moment pass, for those who miss the moment grieve when consigned to hell.

၃၁၆.

316.

အလဇ္ဇိတာယေ လဇ္ဇန္တိ, လဇ္ဇိတာယေ န လဇ္ဇရေ;

မိစ္ဆာဒိဋ္ဌိသမာဒါနာ, သတ္တာ ဂစ္ဆန္တိ ဒုဂ္ဂတိံ.

Ashamed of what is not shameful, and not ashamed of what is shameful, beings who adopt wrong views go to a woeful state.

၃၁၇.

317.

အဘယေ ဘယဒဿိနော, ဘယေ စာဘယဒဿိနော;

မိစ္ဆာဒိဋ္ဌိသမာဒါနာ, သတ္တာ ဂစ္ဆန္တိ ဒုဂ္ဂတိံ.

Seeing fear in what is fearless and seeing no fear in what is fearful, beings who adopt wrong views go to a woeful state.

၃၁၈.

318.

အဝဇ္ဇေ ဝဇ္ဇမတိနော, ဝဇ္ဇေ စာဝဇ္ဇဒဿိနော;

မိစ္ဆာဒိဋ္ဌိသမာဒါနာ, သတ္တာ ဂစ္ဆန္တိ ဒုဂ္ဂတိံ.

Perceiving fault in what is faultless and seeing no fault in what is faulty, beings who adopt wrong views go to a woeful state.

၃၁၉.

319.

ဝဇ္ဇဉ္စ ဝဇ္ဇတော ဉတွာ, အဝဇ္ဇဉ္စ အဝဇ္ဇတော;

သမ္မာဒိဋ္ဌိသမာဒါနာ, သတ္တာ ဂစ္ဆန္တိ သုဂ္ဂတိံ.

Having known the faulty as faulty and the faultless as faultless, beings who adopt right view go to a happy state.

နိရယဝဂ္ဂေါ ဒွါဝီသတိမော နိဋ္ဌိတော.

The Chapter on Hell, the twenty-second, is concluded.

၂၃. နာဂဝဂ္ဂေါ

23. The Chapter on the Elephant

၃၂၀.

320.

အဟံ [Pg.59] နာဂေါဝ သင်္ဂါမေ, စာပတော ပတိတံ သရံ;

အတိဝါကျံ တိတိက္ခိဿံ, ဒုဿီလော ဟိ ဗဟုဇ္ဇနော.

As an elephant in battle endures an arrow shot from a bow, so shall I endure harsh speech; for many people are immoral.

၃၂၁.

321.

ဒန္တံ နယန္တိ သမိတိံ, ဒန္တံ ရာဇာဘိရူဟတိ;

ဒန္တော သေဋ္ဌော မနုဿေသု, ယောတိဝါကျံ တိတိက္ခတိ.

A tamed beast is led to the assembly; the king mounts a tamed beast. Best among humans is the tamed one who endures harsh speech.

၃၂၂.

322.

ဝရမဿတရာ ဒန္တာ, အာဇာနီယာ စ သိန္ဓဝါ;

ကုဉ္ဇရာ စ မဟာနာဂါ, အတ္တဒန္တော တတော ဝရံ.

Excellent are tamed mules, and thoroughbreds of Sindh, and great tusked elephants; but one who has tamed himself is better still.

၃၂၃.

323.

န ဟိ ဧတေဟိ ယာနေဟိ, ဂစ္ဆေယျ အဂတံ ဒိသံ;

ယထာတ္တနာ သုဒန္တေန, ဒန္တော ဒန္တေန ဂစ္ဆတိ.

For not by these mounts can one go to the unreached land, as a tamed person goes by means of his own well-tamed self.

၃၂၄.

324.

ဓနပါလော နာမ ကုဉ္ဇရော, ကဋုကဘေဒနော ဒုန္နိဝါရယော;

ဗဒ္ဓေါ ကဗဠံ န ဘုဉ္ဇတိ, သုမရတိ နာဂဝနဿ ကုဉ္ဇရော.

The elephant named Dhanapāla, pungent in rut and hard to restrain, does not eat a morsel when tied up; the elephant longs for the elephant forest.

၃၂၅.

325.

မိဒ္ဓီ ယဒါ ဟောတိ မဟဂ္ဃသော စ, နိဒ္ဒါယိတာ သမ္ပရိဝတ္တသာယီ;

မဟာဝရာဟောဝ နိဝါပပုဋ္ဌော, ပုနပ္ပုနံ ဂဗ္ဘမုပေတိ မန္ဒော.

When one is torpid and a glutton, a sleepy-head who lies rolling about like a great hog fattened on slops, the dullard enters the womb again and again.

၃၂၆.

326.

ဣဒံ [Pg.60] ပုရေ စိတ္တမစာရိ စာရိကံ, ယေနိစ္ဆကံ ယတ္ထကာမံ ယထာသုခံ;

တဒဇ္ဇဟံ နိဂ္ဂဟေဿာမိ ယောနိသော, ဟတ္ထိပ္ပဘိန္နံ ဝိယ အင်္ကုသဂ္ဂဟော.

Formerly this mind wandered as it wished, where it liked, as it pleased. Today I shall restrain it thoroughly, as a mahout with a hook restrains an elephant in rut.

၃၂၇.

327.

အပ္ပမာဒရတာ ဟောထ, သစိတ္တမနုရက္ခထ;

ဒုဂ္ဂါ ဥဒ္ဓရထတ္တာနံ, ပင်္ကေ သန္နောဝ ကုဉ္ဇရော.

Delight in heedfulness; guard your own mind. Lift yourselves out of the mire, as an elephant sunk in the mud.

၃၂၈.

328.

သစေ လဘေထ နိပကံ သဟာယံ, သဒ္ဓိံ စရံ သာဓုဝိဟာရိဓီရံ;

အဘိဘုယျ သဗ္ဗာနိ ပရိဿယာနိ, စရေယျ တေနတ္တမနော သတီမာ.

If you should find a prudent companion to travel with, one who is virtuous and steadfast, then overcoming all dangers, travel with him, gratified and mindful.

၃၂၉.

329.

နော စေ လဘေထ နိပကံ သဟာယံ, သဒ္ဓိံ စရံ သာဓုဝိဟာရိဓီရံ;

ရာဇာဝ ရဋ္ဌံ ဝိဇိတံ ပဟာယ, ဧကော စရေ မာတင်္ဂရညေဝ နာဂေါ.

If you do not find a prudent companion to travel with, one who is virtuous and steadfast, fare alone like a king who has renounced his conquered kingdom, like an elephant in the Mātaṅga forest.

၃၃၀.

330.

ဧကဿ စရိတံ သေယျော, နတ္ထိ ဗာလေ သဟာယတာ;

ဧကော စရေ န စ ပါပါနိ ကယိရာ, အပ္ပောဿုက္ကော မာတင်္ဂရညေဝ နာဂေါ.

It is better to fare alone; there is no companionship with a fool. Fare alone and do no evil, with few wants, like an elephant in the Mātaṅga forest.

၃၃၁.

331.

အတ္ထမှိ ဇာတမှိ သုခါ သဟာယာ, တုဋ္ဌီ သုခါ ယာ ဣတရီတရေန;

ပုညံ သုခံ ဇီဝိတသင်္ခယမှိ, သဗ္ဗဿ ဒုက္ခဿ သုခံ ပဟာနံ.

Happy are companions when a need arises; happy is contentment with whatever there is. Happy is merit at the end of life; the abandoning of all suffering is happiness.

၃၃၂.

332.

သုခါ [Pg.61] မတ္တေယျတာ လောကေ, အထော ပေတ္တေယျတာ သုခါ;

သုခါ သာမညတာ လောကေ, အထော ဗြဟ္မညတာ သုခါ.

Happy in the world is reverence for one's mother; happy, too, is reverence for one's father. Happy in the world is reverence for recluses; happy, too, is reverence for the holy ones.

၃၃၃.

333.

သုခံ ယာဝ ဇရာ သီလံ, သုခါ သဒ္ဓါ ပတိဋ္ဌိတာ;

သုခေါ ပညာယ ပဋိလာဘော, ပါပါနံ အကရဏံ သုခံ.

Happy is virtue until old age; happy is faith firmly established; happy is the acquisition of wisdom; happy is the non-doing of evil deeds.

နာဂဝဂ္ဂေါ တေဝီသတိမော နိဋ္ဌိတော.

The Chapter on the Elephant, the twenty-third, is concluded.

၂၄. တဏှာဝဂ္ဂေါ

24. The Chapter on Craving

၃၃၄.

334.

မနုဇဿ ပမတ္တစာရိနော, တဏှာ ဝဍ္ဎတိ မာလုဝါ ဝိယ;

သော ပ္လဝတီ ဟုရာ ဟုရံ, ဖလမိစ္ဆံဝ ဝနသ္မိ ဝါနရော.

For a person who lives heedlessly, craving grows like a māluvā creeper. He leaps from one life to another like a monkey in a forest seeking fruit.

၃၃၅.

335.

ယံ ဧသာ သဟတေ ဇမ္မီ, တဏှာ လောကေ ဝိသတ္တိကာ;

သောကာ တဿ ပဝဍ္ဎန္တိ, အဘိဝဋ္ဌံဝ ဗီရဏံ.

Whomever this base, clinging craving overcomes in the world, his sorrows flourish like well-watered bīraṇa grass.

၃၃၆.

336.

ယော စေတံ သဟတေ ဇမ္မိံ, တဏှံ လောကေ ဒုရစ္စယံ;

သောကာ တမှာ ပပတန္တိ, ဥဒဗိန္ဒုဝ ပေါက္ခရာ.

But whoever in the world overcomes this base craving, so hard to transcend, from him sorrows fall away like water drops from a lotus leaf.

၃၃၇.

337.

တံ ဝေါ ဝဒါမိ ဘဒ္ဒံ ဝေါ, ယာဝန္တေတ္ထ သမာဂတာ;

တဏှာယ မူလံ ခဏထ, ဥသီရတ္ထောဝ ဗီရဏံ;

မာ ဝေါ နဠံဝ သောတောဝ, မာရော ဘဉ္ဇိ ပုနပ္ပုနံ.

This I tell you—blessings to you, all who have gathered here: dig up the root of craving, as one seeking fragrant usīra root digs up bīraṇa grass. Do not let Māra break you again and again, as a river breaks a reed.

၃၃၈.

338.

ယထာပိ [Pg.62] မူလေ အနုပဒ္ဒဝေ ဒဠှေ, ဆိန္နောပိ ရုက္ခော ပုနရေဝ ရူဟတိ;

ဧဝမ္ပိ တဏှာနုသယေ အနူဟတေ, နိဗ္ဗတ္တတီ ဒုက္ခမိဒံ ပုနပ္ပုနံ.

Just as a tree, though cut down, grows again if its root is undamaged and firm, so too, if the underlying tendency to craving is not uprooted, this suffering arises again and again.

၃၃၉.

339.

ယဿ ဆတ္တိံသတိ သောတာ, မနာပသဝနာ ဘုသာ;

မာဟာ ဝဟန္တိ ဒုဒ္ဒိဋ္ဌိံ, သင်္ကပ္ပာ ရာဂနိဿိတာ.

For one in whom the thirty-six streams flowing toward the agreeable are strong, great floods of passion-based thoughts carry away that person of wrong view.

၃၄၀.

340.

သဝန္တိ သဗ္ဗဓိ သောတာ, လတာ ဥပ္ပဇ္ဇ တိဋ္ဌတိ;

တဉ္စ ဒိသွာ လတံ ဇာတံ, မူလံ ပညာယ ဆိန္ဒထ.

The streams flow everywhere; the creeper of craving springs up and remains. Seeing that creeper has sprung up, cut off its root with wisdom.

၃၄၁.

341.

သရိတာနိ သိနေဟိတာနိ စ, သောမနဿာနိ ဘဝန္တိ ဇန္တုနော;

တေ သာတသိတာ သုခေသိနော, တေ ဝေ ဇာတိဇရူပဂါ နရာ.

Joys that are worldly and based on affection arise for a person. Those attached to pleasure and seeking happiness are indeed the people subject to birth and aging.

၃၄၂.

342.

တသိဏာယ ပုရက္ခတာ ပဇာ, ပရိသပ္ပန္တိ သသောဝ ဗန္ဓိတော ;

သံယောဇနသင်္ဂသတ္တကာ, ဒုက္ခမုပေန္တိ ပုနပ္ပုနံ စိရာယ.

People pursued by craving creep about like a snared hare. Bound by fetters and attachments, they undergo suffering again and again for a long time.

၃၄၃.

343.

တသိဏာယ ပုရက္ခတာ ပဇာ, ပရိသပ္ပန္တိ သသောဝ ဗန္ဓိတော;

တသ္မာ တသိဏံ ဝိနောဒယေ, အာကင်္ခန္တ ဝိရာဂမတ္တနော.

People pursued by craving creep about like a snared hare. Therefore, one who longs for one's own dispassion should dispel craving.

၃၄၄.

344.

ယော နိဗ္ဗနထော ဝနာဓိမုတ္တော, ဝနမုတ္တော ဝနမေဝ ဓာဝတိ;

တံ ပုဂ္ဂလမေထ ပဿထ, မုတ္တော ဗန္ဓနမေဝ ဓာဝတိ.

He who is free from the jungle of defilements, yet is intent on that jungle; though freed from the jungle, he runs back to that very jungle. Come, look at that person: though freed, he runs back to the very bondage.

၃၄၅.

345.

န [Pg.63] တံ ဒဠှံ ဗန္ဓနမာဟု ဓီရာ, ယဒါယသံ ဒါရုဇပဗ္ဗဇဉ္စ ;

သာရတ္တရတ္တာ မဏိကုဏ္ဍလေသု, ပုတ္တေသု ဒါရေသု စ ယာ အပေက္ခာ.

The wise do not call that a strong bond which is made of iron, wood, or babbaja grass. But that passionate attachment for jeweled earrings, and the longing for children and wives—

၃၄၆.

346.

ဧတံ ဒဠှံ ဗန္ဓနမာဟု ဓီရာ, ဩဟာရိနံ သိထိလံ ဒုပ္ပမုဉ္စံ;

ဧတမ္ပိ ဆေတွာန ပရိဗ္ဗဇန္တိ, အနပေက္ခိနော ကာမသုခံ ပဟာယ.

that, the wise say, is a strong bond: dragging down, slack, yet hard to undo. Having cut this too, they wander forth, without longing, having abandoned sensual pleasures.

၃၄၇.

347.

ယေ ရာဂရတ္တာနုပတန္တိ သောတံ, သယံကတံ မက္ကဋကောဝ ဇာလံ;

ဧတမ္ပိ ဆေတွာန ဝဇန္တိ ဓီရာ, အနပေက္ခိနော သဗ္ဗဒုက္ခံ ပဟာယ.

Those impassioned by lust fall back into the stream, like a spider into the web it has spun itself. Having cut this too, the wise go forth, without longing, having abandoned all suffering.

၃၄၈.

348.

မုဉ္စ ပုရေ မုဉ္စ ပစ္ဆတော, မဇ္ဈေ မုဉ္စ ဘဝဿ ပါရဂူ;

သဗ္ဗတ္ထ ဝိမုတ္တမာနသော, န ပုနံ ဇာတိဇရံ ဥပေဟိသိ.

Let go of the past, let go of the future, let go of the middle. Having gone to the far shore of existence, with a mind released in every respect, you will not again undergo birth and aging.

၃၄၉.

349.

ဝိတက္ကမထိတဿ ဇန္တုနော, တိဗ္ဗရာဂဿ သုဘာနုပဿိနော;

ဘိယျော တဏှာ ပဝဍ္ဎတိ, ဧသ ခေါ ဒဠှံ ကရောတိ ဗန္ဓနံ.

For a person agitated by thoughts, of intense passion, and perceiving the beautiful, craving grows all the more. He indeed makes his bondage strong.

၃၅၀.

350.

ဝိတက္ကူပသမေ [Pg.64] စ ယော ရတော, အသုဘံ ဘာဝယတေ သဒါ သတော;

ဧသ ခေါ ဗျန္တိ ကာဟိတိ, ဧသ ဆေစ္ဆတိ မာရဗန္ဓနံ.

But he who delights in the calming of thoughts, ever mindful, develops the perception of the foul. He will surely make an end of craving; he will cut the bond of Māra.

၃၅၁.

351.

နိဋ္ဌင်္ဂတော အသန္တာသီ, ဝီတတဏှော အနင်္ဂဏော;

အစ္ဆိန္ဒိ ဘဝသလ္လာနိ, အန္တိမောယံ သမုဿယော.

He who has reached the goal, is fearless, free from craving, and stainless, has cut off the arrows of becoming. This is his final body.

၃၅၂.

352.

ဝီတတဏှော အနာဒါနော, နိရုတ္တိပဒကောဝိဒေါ;

အက္ခရာနံ သန္နိပါတံ, ဇညာ ပုဗ္ဗာပရာနိ စ;

သ ဝေ ‘‘အန္တိမသာရီရော, မဟာပညော မဟာပုရိသော’’တိ ဝုစ္စတိ.

He who is free from craving and grasping, skilled in etymology and terms, who knows the arrangement of letters and their sequence—he is truly called one who bears his final body, one of great wisdom, a great man.

၃၅၃.

353.

သဗ္ဗာဘိဘူ သဗ္ဗဝိဒူဟမသ္မိ, သဗ္ဗေသု ဓမ္မေသု အနူပလိတ္တော;

သဗ္ဗဉ္ဇဟော တဏှက္ခယေ ဝိမုတ္တော, သယံ အဘိညာယ ကမုဒ္ဒိသေယျံ.

I am the all-conqueror, the all-knower, untainted in all things. I have abandoned everything, liberated through the destruction of craving. Having realized this myself through direct knowledge, whom should I call my teacher?

၃၅၄.

354.

သဗ္ဗဒါနံ ဓမ္မဒါနံ ဇိနာတိ, သဗ္ဗရသံ ဓမ္မရသော ဇိနာတိ;

သဗ္ဗရတိံ ဓမ္မရတိ ဇိနာတိ, တဏှက္ခယော သဗ္ဗဒုက္ခံ ဇိနာတိ.

The gift of the Dhamma excels all gifts; the taste of the Dhamma excels all tastes; delight in the Dhamma excels all delights. The destruction of craving conquers all suffering.

၃၅၅.

355.

ဟနန္တိ ဘောဂါ ဒုမ္မေဓံ, နော စ ပါရဂဝေသိနော;

ဘောဂတဏှာယ ဒုမ္မေဓော, ဟန္တိ အညေဝ အတ္တနံ.

Riches destroy the witless, but not those who seek the Far Shore. Through craving for riches, the witless person destroys himself as if destroying another.

၃၅၆.

356.

တိဏဒေါသာနိ ခေတ္တာနိ, ရာဂဒေါသာ အယံ ပဇာ;

တသ္မာ ဟိ ဝီတရာဂေသု, ဒိန္နံ ဟောတိ မဟပ္ဖလံ.

Fields are ruined by weeds; this generation is ruined by lust. Therefore, what is given to those free from lust bears great fruit.

၃၅၇.

357.

တိဏဒေါသာနိ [Pg.65] ခေတ္တာနိ, ဒေါသဒေါသာ အယံ ပဇာ;

တသ္မာ ဟိ ဝီတဒေါသေသု, ဒိန္နံ ဟောတိ မဟပ္ဖလံ.

Fields are ruined by weeds; this generation is ruined by hatred. Therefore, what is given to those free from hatred bears great fruit.

၃၅၈.

358.

တိဏဒေါသာနိ ခေတ္တာနိ, မောဟဒေါသာ အယံ ပဇာ;

တသ္မာ ဟိ ဝီတမောဟေသု, ဒိန္နံ ဟောတိ မဟပ္ဖလံ.

Fields are ruined by weeds; this generation is ruined by delusion. Therefore, what is given to those free from delusion bears great fruit.

၃၅၉.

359.

(တိဏဒေါသာနိ ခေတ္တာနိ, ဣစ္ဆာဒေါသာ အယံ ပဇာ;

တသ္မာ ဟိ ဝိဂတိစ္ဆေသု, ဒိန္နံ ဟောတိ မဟပ္ဖလံ.)

Fields are ruined by weeds; this generation is ruined by desire. Therefore, what is given to those free from desire bears great fruit.

တိဏဒေါသာနိ ခေတ္တာနိ, တဏှာဒေါသာ အယံ ပဇာ;

တသ္မာ ဟိ ဝီတတဏှေသု, ဒိန္နံ ဟောတိ မဟပ္ဖလံ.

Fields are ruined by weeds; this generation is ruined by craving. Therefore, what is given to those free from craving bears great fruit.

တဏှာဝဂ္ဂေါ စတုဝီသတိမော နိဋ္ဌိတော.

The Twenty-Fourth Chapter on Craving is concluded.

၂၅. ဘိက္ခုဝဂ္ဂေါ

25. The Chapter on the Bhikkhu

၃၆၀.

360.

စက္ခုနာ သံဝရော သာဓု, သာဓု သောတေန သံဝရော;

ဃာနေန သံဝရော သာဓု, သာဓု ဇိဝှာယ သံဝရော.

Good is restraint of the eye, good is restraint of the ear; good is restraint of the nose, good is restraint of the tongue.

၃၆၁.

361.

ကာယေန သံဝရော သာဓု, သာဓု ဝါစာယ သံဝရော;

မနသာ သံဝရော သာဓု, သာဓု သဗ္ဗတ္ထ သံဝရော;

သဗ္ဗတ္ထ သံဝုတော ဘိက္ခု, သဗ္ဗဒုက္ခာ ပမုစ္စတိ.

Good is restraint of the body, good is restraint of speech; good is restraint of the mind, good is restraint in all things. A bhikkhu restrained in all things is freed from all suffering.

၃၆၂.

362.

ဟတ္ထသံယတော ပါဒသံယတော, ဝါစာသံယတော သံယတုတ္တမော;

အဇ္ဈတ္တရတော သမာဟိတော, ဧကော သန္တုသိတော တမာဟု ဘိက္ခုံ.

Restrained in hand, restrained in foot, restrained in speech, with supreme self-restraint; delighting inwardly, composed, alone, and content—him they call a bhikkhu.

၃၆၃.

363.

ယော မုခသံယတော ဘိက္ခု, မန္တဘာဏီ အနုဒ္ဓတော;

အတ္ထံ ဓမ္မဉ္စ ဒီပေတိ, မဓုရံ တဿ ဘာသိတံ.

The bhikkhu who is restrained in mouth, speaks thoughtfully, is not arrogant, and illuminates the meaning and the Dhamma—sweet is his speech.

၃၆၄.

364.

ဓမ္မာရာမော [Pg.66] ဓမ္မရတော, ဓမ္မံ အနုဝိစိန္တယံ;

ဓမ္မံ အနုဿရံ ဘိက္ခု, သဒ္ဓမ္မာ န ပရိဟာယတိ.

Delighting in the Dhamma, devoted to the Dhamma, contemplating the Dhamma, a bhikkhu who recollects the Dhamma does not fall away from the true Dhamma.

၃၆၅.

365.

သလာဘံ နာတိမညေယျ, နာညေသံ ပိဟယံ စရေ;

အညေသံ ပိဟယံ ဘိက္ခု, သမာဓိံ နာဓိဂစ္ဆတိ.

Let one not despise one's own gains, nor wander about envying others. A bhikkhu who envies others does not attain concentration.

၃၆၆.

366.

အပ္ပလာဘောပိ စေ ဘိက္ခု, သလာဘံ နာတိမညတိ;

တံ ဝေ ဒေဝါ ပသံသန္တိ, သုဒ္ဓါဇီဝိံ အတန္ဒိတံ.

Even if a bhikkhu receives little, if he does not despise his own gains, the gods indeed praise him—one of pure livelihood, untiring.

၃၆၇.

367.

သဗ္ဗသော နာမရူပသ္မိံ, ယဿ နတ္ထိ မမာယိတံ;

အသတာ စ န သောစတိ, သ ဝေ ‘‘ဘိက္ခူ’’တိ ဝုစ္စတိ.

One for whom there is no sense of “mine” at all in name and form, who does not grieve for what does not exist—he is truly called a “bhikkhu.”

၃၆၈.

368.

မေတ္တာဝိဟာရီ ယော ဘိက္ခု, ပသန္နော ဗုဒ္ဓသာသနေ;

အဓိဂစ္ဆေ ပဒံ သန္တံ, သင်္ခါရူပသမံ သုခံ.

A bhikkhu who dwells in loving-kindness, serene in the Buddha's Dispensation, attains the peaceful state, the blissful stilling of formations.

၃၆၉.

369.

သိဉ္စ ဘိက္ခု ဣမံ နာဝံ, သိတ္တာ တေ လဟုမေဿတိ;

ဆေတွာ ရာဂဉ္စ ဒေါသဉ္စ, တတော နိဗ္ဗာနမေဟိသိ.

Bail out this boat, O bhikkhu! Bailed out, it will go swiftly. Cutting off lust and hate, then you will go to Nibbāna.

၃၇၀.

370.

ပဉ္စ ဆိန္ဒေ ပဉ္စ ဇဟေ, ပဉ္စ စုတ္တရိ ဘာဝယေ;

ပဉ္စ သင်္ဂါတိဂေါ ဘိက္ခု, ‘‘ဩဃတိဏ္ဏော’’တိ ဝုစ္စတိ.

Cut off five, abandon five, and further cultivate five; the bhikkhu who has transcended the five attachments is called 'one who has crossed the flood.'

၃၇၁.

371.

ဈာယ ဘိက္ခု မာ ပမာဒေါ, မာ တေ ကာမဂုဏေ ရမေဿု စိတ္တံ;

မာ လောဟဂုဠံ ဂိလီ ပမတ္တော, မာ ကန္ဒိ ‘‘ဒုက္ခမိဒ’’န္တိ ဍယှမာနော.

Meditate, O bhikkhu, and be not heedless; let not your mind delight in sensual pleasures. Lest, being heedless, you swallow a molten iron ball, and burning, cry out, 'This is suffering!'

၃၇၂.

372.

နတ္ထိ ဈာနံ အပညဿ, ပညာ နတ္ထိ အဈာယတော ;

ယမှိ ဈာနဉ္စ ပညာ စ, သ ဝေ နိဗ္ဗာနသန္တိကေ.

There is no jhāna for one without wisdom, nor is there wisdom for one who does not practice jhāna; he in whom there is both jhāna and wisdom is indeed near Nibbāna.

၃၇၃.

373.

သုညာဂါရံ [Pg.67] ပဝိဋ္ဌဿ, သန္တစိတ္တဿ ဘိက္ခုနော;

အမာနုသီ ရတိ ဟောတိ, သမ္မာ ဓမ္မံ ဝိပဿတော.

For a bhikkhu who has entered an empty dwelling, whose mind is tranquil, there arises a superhuman delight as he rightly discerns the Dhamma.

၃၇၄.

374.

ယတော ယတော သမ္မသတိ, ခန္ဓာနံ ဥဒယဗ္ဗယံ;

လဘတီ ပီတိပါမောဇ္ဇံ, အမတံ တံ ဝိဇာနတံ.

Whenever he comprehends the rise and fall of the aggregates, he obtains joy and gladness; that, for those who know, is the deathless.

၃၇၅.

375.

တတြာယမာဒိ ဘဝတိ, ဣဓ ပညဿ ဘိက္ခုနော;

ဣန္ဒြိယဂုတ္တိ သန္တုဋ္ဌိ, ပါတိမောက္ခေ စ သံဝရော.

Here, for a wise bhikkhu, this is the beginning: guarding the senses, contentment, and restraint in accordance with the Pātimokkha.

၃၇၆.

376.

မိတ္တေ ဘဇဿု ကလျာဏေ, သုဒ္ဓါဇီဝေ အတန္ဒိတေ;

ပဋိသန္ထာရဝုတျဿ, အာစာရကုသလော သိယာ;

တတော ပါမောဇ္ဇဗဟုလော, ဒုက္ခဿန္တံ ကရိဿတိ.

Associate with noble friends, pure in livelihood and diligent. One should be courteous in conduct and skilled in right behavior; then, full of gladness, one will make an end of suffering.

၃၇၇.

377.

ဝဿိကာ ဝိယ ပုပ္ဖာနိ, မဒ္ဒဝါနိ ပမုဉ္စတိ;

ဧဝံ ရာဂဉ္စ ဒေါသဉ္စ, ဝိပ္ပမုဉ္စေထ ဘိက္ခဝေါ.

As the jasmine sheds its withered flowers, even so, O bhikkhus, should you shed lust and hatred.

၃၇၈.

378.

သန္တကာယော သန္တဝါစော, သန္တဝါ သုသမာဟိတော ;

ဝန္တလောကာမိသော ဘိက္ခု, ‘‘ဥပသန္တော’’တိ ဝုစ္စတိ.

Calm in body, calm in speech, calm in mind and well-composed, the bhikkhu who has relinquished worldly allurements is called 'one who is at peace.'

၃၇၉.

379.

အတ္တနာ စောဒယတ္တာနံ, ပဋိမံသေထ အတ္တနာ ;

သော အတ္တဂုတ္တော သတိမာ, သုခံ ဘိက္ခု ဝိဟာဟိသိ.

By yourself, admonish yourself; by yourself, examine yourself. Thus self-guarded and mindful, O bhikkhu, you will dwell in happiness.

၃၈၀.

380.

အတ္တာ ဟိ အတ္တနော နာထော, (ကော ဟိ နာထော ပရော သိယာ) အတ္တာ ဟိ အတ္တနော ဂတိ;

တသ္မာ သံယမမတ္တာနံ, အဿံ ဘဒြံဝ ဝါဏိဇော.

One is indeed one's own protector, for who else could the protector be? One is indeed one's own refuge. Therefore, restrain yourself as a merchant restrains a fine horse.

၃၈၁.

381.

ပါမောဇ္ဇဗဟုလော [Pg.68] ဘိက္ခု, ပသန္နော ဗုဒ္ဓသာသနေ;

အဓိဂစ္ဆေ ပဒံ သန္တံ, သင်္ခါရူပသမံ သုခံ.

The bhikkhu, full of gladness, serene in the Buddha's Dispensation, will attain the peaceful state, the bliss of the stilling of formations.

၃၈၂.

382.

ယော ဟဝေ ဒဟရော ဘိက္ခု, ယုဉ္ဇတိ ဗုဒ္ဓသာသနေ;

သောမံ လောကံ ပဘာသေတိ, အဗ္ဘာ မုတ္တောဝ စန္ဒိမာ.

Indeed, a young bhikkhu who applies himself to the Buddha's Dispensation illuminates this world like the moon freed from a cloud.

ဘိက္ခုဝဂ္ဂေါ ပဉ္စဝီသတိမော နိဋ္ဌိတော.

The Chapter on the Bhikkhu, the Twenty-Fifth, is concluded.

၂၆. ဗြာဟ္မဏဝဂ္ဂေါ

26. The Chapter on the Brahmin

၃၈၃.

383.

ဆိန္ဒ သောတံ ပရက္ကမ္မ, ကာမေ ပနုဒ ဗြာဟ္မဏ;

သင်္ခါရာနံ ခယံ ဉတွာ, အကတညူသိ ဗြာဟ္မဏ.

Striving, O brahmin, cut off the stream; dispel sensual desires. Knowing the destruction of formations, you are a knower of the Uncreated, O brahmin.

၃၈၄.

384.

ယဒါ ဒွယေသု ဓမ္မေသု, ပါရဂူ ဟောတိ ဗြာဟ္မဏော;

အထဿ သဗ္ဗေ သံယောဂါ, အတ္ထံ ဂစ္ဆန္တိ ဇာနတော.

When a brahmin has gone to the far shore in the two phenomena, then for that one who knows, all fetters come to an end.

၃၈၅.

385.

ယဿ ပါရံ အပါရံ ဝါ, ပါရာပါရံ န ဝိဇ္ဇတိ;

ဝီတဒ္ဒရံ ဝိသံယုတ္တံ, တမဟံ ဗြူမိ ဗြာဟ္မဏံ.

For whom the near shore, the far shore, or both, does not exist; who is free from distress and unbound—him I call a brahmin.

၃၈၆.

386.

ဈာယိံ ဝိရဇမာသီနံ, ကတကိစ္စမနာသဝံ;

ဥတ္တမတ္ထမနုပ္ပတ္တံ, တမဟံ ဗြူမိ ဗြာဟ္မဏံ.

Meditating, stainless, and seated in solitude, his duty done and free from taints, having attained the highest goal—him I call a brahmin.

၃၈၇.

387.

ဒိဝါ [Pg.69] တပတိ အာဒိစ္စော, ရတ္တိမာဘာတိ စန္ဒိမာ;

သန္နဒ္ဓေါ ခတ္တိယော တပတိ, ဈာယီ တပတိ ဗြာဟ္မဏော;

အထ သဗ္ဗမဟောရတ္တိံ, ဗုဒ္ဓေါ တပတိ တေဇသာ.

By day the sun shines, by night the moon is radiant; the warrior shines in his armor, the brahmin shines in meditation; but the Buddha shines with radiance all day and all night.

၃၈၈.

388.

ဗာဟိတပါပေါတိ ဗြာဟ္မဏော, သမစရိယာ သမဏောတိ ဝုစ္စတိ;

ပဗ္ဗာဇယမတ္တနော မလံ, တသ္မာ ‘‘ပဗ္ဗဇိတော’’တိ ဝုစ္စတိ.

Because he has banished evil, he is a 'brahmin'; because he lives in serenity, he is called a 'samaṇa'; because he has sent forth his own impurities, he is called a 'pabbajita.'

၃၈၉.

389.

န ဗြာဟ္မဏဿ ပဟရေယျ, နာဿ မုဉ္စေထ ဗြာဟ္မဏော;

ဓီ ဗြာဟ္မဏဿ ဟန္တာရံ, တတော ဓီ ယဿ မုဉ္စတိ.

One should not strike a brahmin, nor should a brahmin retaliate against him. Shame on one who strikes a brahmin, and more shame on one who retaliates.

၃၉၀.

390.

န ဗြာဟ္မဏဿေတဒကိဉ္စိ သေယျော, ယဒါ နိသေဓော မနသော ပိယေဟိ;

ယတော ယတော ဟိံသမနော နိဝတ္တတိ, တတော တတော သမ္မတိမေဝ ဒုက္ခံ.

For a brahmin, there is no greater good than when the mind is restrained from things that are dear. To the extent that the mind of ill will turns back, to that extent suffering is allayed.

၃၉၁.

391.

ယဿ ကာယေန ဝါစာယ, မနသာ နတ္ထိ ဒုက္ကဋံ;

သံဝုတံ တီဟိ ဌာနေဟိ, တမဟံ ဗြူမိ ဗြာဟ္မဏံ.

He who does no wrong by body, speech, or mind, being restrained in these three ways—him I call a brahmin.

၃၉၂.

392.

ယမှာ ဓမ္မံ ဝိဇာနေယျ, သမ္မာသမ္ဗုဒ္ဓဒေသိတံ;

သက္ကစ္စံ တံ နမဿေယျ, အဂ္ဂိဟုတ္တံဝ ဗြာဟ္မဏော.

From whomever one might learn the Dhamma taught by the Perfectly Enlightened One, one should revere him with respect, as a brahmin reveres the sacrificial fire.

၃၉၃.

393.

န ဇဋာဟိ န ဂေါတ္တေန, န ဇစ္စာ ဟောတိ ဗြာဟ္မဏော;

ယမှိ သစ္စဉ္စ ဓမ္မော စ, သော သုစီ သော စ ဗြာဟ္မဏော.

Not by matted hair, nor by clan, nor by birth does one become a brahmin. He in whom there is truth and righteousness—he is pure, and he is a brahmin.

၃၉၄.

394.

ကိံ [Pg.70] တေ ဇဋာဟိ ဒုမ္မေဓ, ကိံ တေ အဇိနသာဋိယာ;

အဗ္ဘန္တရံ တေ ဂဟနံ, ဗာဟိရံ ပရိမဇ္ဇသိ.

What use is matted hair to you, O fool? What use is a garment of antelope skin? Within you is a jungle, while you polish the outside.

၃၉၅.

395.

ပံသုကူလဓရံ ဇန္တုံ, ကိသံ ဓမနိသန္ထတံ;

ဧကံ ဝနသ္မိံ ဈာယန္တံ, တမဟံ ဗြူမိ ဗြာဟ္မဏံ.

The person who wears rag-robes, who is lean, with veins showing, who meditates alone in the forest—him I call a brahmin.

၃၉၆.

396.

န စာဟံ ဗြာဟ္မဏံ ဗြူမိ, ယောနိဇံ မတ္တိသမ္ဘဝံ;

ဘောဝါဒိ နာမ သော ဟောတိ, သစေ ဟောတိ သကိဉ္စနော;

အကိဉ္စနံ အနာဒါနံ, တမဟံ ဗြူမိ ဗြာဟ္မဏံ.

I do not call one a brahmin on account of birth or maternal origin. He is merely one who addresses others as 'bho' if he has any possessions; but the one who is possessionless and non-grasping—him I call a brahmin.

၃၉၇.

397.

သဗ္ဗသံယောဇနံ ဆေတွာ, ယော ဝေ န ပရိတဿတိ;

သင်္ဂါတိဂံ ဝိသံယုတ္တံ, တမဟံ ဗြူမိ ဗြာဟ္မဏံ.

One who has cut all fetters and does not tremble, who has gone beyond attachment and is disjoined—him I call a brahmin.

၃၉၈.

398.

ဆေတွာ နဒ္ဓိံ ဝရတ္တဉ္စ, သန္ဒာနံ သဟနုက္ကမံ;

ဥက္ခိတ္တပလိဃံ ဗုဒ္ဓံ, တမဟံ ဗြူမိ ဗြာဟ္မဏံ.

One who has cut the strap and the thong, the rope with its appurtenances, who has lifted the crossbar, the enlightened one—him I call a brahmin.

၃၉၉.

399.

အက္ကောသံ ဝဓဗန္ဓဉ္စ, အဒုဋ္ဌော ယော တိတိက္ခတိ;

ခန္တီဗလံ ဗလာနီကံ, တမဟံ ဗြူမိ ဗြာဟ္မဏံ.

One who, without malice, endures abuse, assault, and imprisonment; whose power is patience, whose army is that strength—him I call a brahmin.

၄၀၀.

400.

အက္ကောဓနံ ဝတဝန္တံ, သီလဝန္တံ အနုဿဒံ;

ဒန္တံ အန္တိမသာရီရံ, တမဟံ ဗြူမိ ဗြာဟ္မဏံ.

One who is free from anger, observant of vows, virtuous, without craving, tamed, and bearing his final body—him I call a brahmin.

၄၀၁.

401.

ဝါရိ [Pg.71] ပေါက္ခရပတ္တေဝ, အာရဂ္ဂေရိဝ သာသပေါ;

ယော န လိမ္ပတိ ကာမေသု, တမဟံ ဗြူမိ ဗြာဟ္မဏံ.

Like water on a lotus leaf, like a mustard seed on the point of an awl, one who is not smeared by sensual pleasures—him I call a brahmin.

၄၀၂.

402.

ယော ဒုက္ခဿ ပဇာနာတိ, ဣဓေဝ ခယမတ္တနော;

ပန္နဘာရံ ဝိသံယုတ္တံ, တမဟံ ဗြူမိ ဗြာဟ္မဏံ.

One who understands, here in this very life, the end of his own suffering; who has laid down the burden, disjoined—him I call a brahmin.

၄၀၃.

403.

ဂမ္ဘီရပညံ မေဓာဝိံ, မဂ္ဂါမဂ္ဂဿ ကောဝိဒံ;

ဥတ္တမတ္ထမနုပ္ပတ္တံ, တမဟံ ဗြူမိ ဗြာဟ္မဏံ.

One of deep wisdom, intelligent, skilled in the path and the non-path, who has attained the highest goal—him I call a brahmin.

၄၀၄.

404.

အသံသဋ္ဌံ ဂဟဋ္ဌေဟိ, အနာဂါရေဟိ စူဘယံ;

အနောကသာရိမပ္ပိစ္ဆံ, တမဟံ ဗြူမိ ဗြာဟ္မဏံ.

One who is unmingled with both householders and the homeless, who wanders without a home, with few wants—him I call a brahmin.

၄၀၅.

405.

နိဓာယ ဒဏ္ဍံ ဘူတေသု, တသေသု ထာဝရေသု စ;

ယော န ဟန္တိ န ဃာတေတိ, တမဟံ ဗြူမိ ဗြာဟ္မဏံ.

One who has laid aside the rod toward beings, both trembling and firm, who neither kills nor causes to be killed—him I call a brahmin.

၄၀၆.

406.

အဝိရုဒ္ဓံ ဝိရုဒ္ဓေသု, အတ္တဒဏ္ဍေသု နိဗ္ဗုတံ;

သာဒါနေသု အနာဒါနံ, တမဟံ ဗြူမိ ဗြာဟ္မဏံ.

Unopposed among the opposed, at peace among those who have taken up the rod, ungrasping among the grasping—him I call a brahmin.

၄၀၇.

407.

ယဿ ရာဂေါ စ ဒေါသော စ, မာနော မက္ခော စ ပါတိတော;

သာသပေါရိဝ အာရဂ္ဂါ, တမဟံ ဗြူမိ ဗြာဟ္မဏံ.

One from whom lust, hatred, conceit, and contempt have fallen away, like a mustard seed from the point of an awl—him I call a brahmin.

၄၀၈.

408.

အကက္ကသံ [Pg.72] ဝိညာပနိံ, ဂိရံ သစ္စမုဒီရယေ;

ယာယ နာဘိသဇေ ကဉ္စိ, တမဟံ ဗြူမိ ဗြာဟ္မဏံ.

One who would utter speech that is not harsh, is instructive and true, by which he would offend no one—him I call a brahmin.

၄၀၉.

409.

ယောဓ ဒီဃံ ဝ ရဿံ ဝါ, အဏုံ ထူလံ သုဘာသုဘံ;

လောကေ အဒိန္နံ နာဒိယတိ, တမဟံ ဗြူမိ ဗြာဟ္မဏံ.

One who in this world does not take what is not given, be it long or short, small or large, beautiful or ugly—him I call a brahmin.

၄၁၀.

410.

အာသာ ယဿ န ဝိဇ္ဇန္တိ, အသ္မိံ လောကေ ပရမှိ စ;

နိရာသာသံ ဝိသံယုတ္တံ, တမဟံ ဗြူမိ ဗြာဟ္မဏံ.

One for whom there are no yearnings for this world or the next, who is free from yearning and disjoined—him I call a brahmin.

၄၁၁.

411.

ယဿာလယာ န ဝိဇ္ဇန္တိ, အညာယ အကထံကထီ;

အမတောဂဓမနုပ္ပတ္တံ, တမဟံ ဗြူမိ ဗြာဟ္မဏံ.

One for whom there are no attachments, who through knowledge is free from doubt, who has attained the immersion in the Deathless—him I call a brahmin.

၄၁၂.

412.

ယောဓ ပုညဉ္စ ပါပဉ္စ, ဥဘော သင်္ဂမုပစ္စဂါ;

အသောကံ ဝိရဇံ သုဒ္ဓံ, တမဟံ ဗြူမိ ဗြာဟ္မဏံ.

One who here has gone beyond attachment to both merit and demerit, who is sorrowless, stainless, and pure—him I call a brahmin.

၄၁၃.

413.

စန္ဒံဝ ဝိမလံ သုဒ္ဓံ, ဝိပ္ပသန္နမနာဝိလံ;

နန္ဒီဘဝပရိက္ခီဏံ, တမဟံ ဗြူမိ ဗြာဟ္မဏံ.

One who is like the moon—stainless, pure, serene, and clear—in whom delight in becoming is exhausted—him I call a brahmin.

၄၁၄.

414.

ယောမံ ပလိပထံ ဒုဂ္ဂံ, သံသာရံ မောဟမစ္စဂါ;

တိဏ္ဏော ပါရဂတော ဈာယီ, အနေဇော အကထံကထီ;

အနုပါဒါယ နိဗ္ဗုတော, တမဟံ ဗြူမိ ဗြာဟ္မဏံ.

One who has traversed this perilous, difficult path, this saṃsāra and delusion; who has crossed over to the farther shore, is meditative, free from craving, without doubt, and through non-clinging is at peace—him I call a brahmin.

၄၁၅.

415.

ယောဓ [Pg.73] ကာမေ ပဟန္တွာန, အနာဂါရော ပရိဗ္ဗဇေ;

ကာမဘဝပရိက္ခီဏံ, တမဟံ ဗြူမိ ဗြာဟ္မဏံ.

One who here, having abandoned sensual pleasures, would wander as a homeless one, in whom desire for sensual existence is exhausted—him I call a brahmin.

၄၁၆.

416.

ယောဓ တဏှံ ပဟန္တွာန, အနာဂါရော ပရိဗ္ဗဇေ;

တဏှာဘဝပရိက္ခီဏံ, တမဟံ ဗြူမိ ဗြာဟ္မဏံ.

One who here, having abandoned craving, would wander as a homeless one, in whom craving for existence is exhausted—him I call a brahmin.

၄၁၇.

417.

ဟိတွာ မာနုသကံ ယောဂံ, ဒိဗ္ဗံ ယောဂံ ဥပစ္စဂါ;

သဗ္ဗယောဂဝိသံယုတ္တံ, တမဟံ ဗြူမိ ဗြာဟ္မဏံ.

Having abandoned the human yoke and gone beyond the divine yoke, disjoined from all yokes—him I call a brahmin.

၄၁၈.

418.

ဟိတွာ ရတိဉ္စ အရတိဉ္စ, သီတိဘူတံ နိရူပဓိံ;

သဗ္ဗလောကာဘိဘုံ ဝီရံ, တမဟံ ဗြူမိ ဗြာဟ္မဏံ.

Having abandoned delight and aversion, become cool and without acquisitions, a hero who has conquered all the world—him I call a brahmin.

၄၁၉.

419.

စုတိံ ယော ဝေဒိ သတ္တာနံ, ဥပပတ္တိဉ္စ သဗ္ဗသော;

အသတ္တံ သုဂတံ ဗုဒ္ဓံ, တမဟံ ဗြူမိ ဗြာဟ္မဏံ.

He who knows the passing away and rebirth of beings in every way, unattached, the Well-farer, the Awakened—him I call a brahmin.

၄၂၀.

420.

ယဿ ဂတိံ န ဇာနန္တိ, ဒေဝါ ဂန္ဓဗ္ဗမာနုသာ;

ခီဏာသဝံ အရဟန္တံ, တမဟံ ဗြူမိ ဗြာဟ္မဏံ.

Whose destination is not known by gods, gandhabbas, or humans, the one whose taints are destroyed, the Arahant—him I call a brahmin.

၄၂၁.

421.

ယဿ [Pg.74] ပုရေ စ ပစ္ဆာ စ, မဇ္ဈေ စ နတ္ထိ ကိဉ္စနံ;

အကိဉ္စနံ အနာဒါနံ, တမဟံ ဗြူမိ ဗြာဟ္မဏံ.

For whom there is nothing before, after, or in the middle; who is possessionless and non-grasping—him I call a brahmin.

၄၂၂.

422.

ဥသဘံ ပဝရံ ဝီရံ, မဟေသိံ ဝိဇိတာဝိနံ;

အနေဇံ နှာတကံ ဗုဒ္ဓံ, တမဟံ ဗြူမိ ဗြာဟ္မဏံ.

The bull-like, the noble, the heroic, the great sage, the victorious one, free from craving, the cleansed, the enlightened—him I call a brahmin.

၄၂၃.

423.

ပုဗ္ဗေနိဝါသံ ယော ဝေဒိ, သဂ္ဂါပါယဉ္စ ပဿတိ,အထော ဇာတိက္ခယံ ပတ္တော, အဘိညာဝေါသိတော မုနိ;

သဗ္ဗဝေါသိတဝေါသာနံ, တမဟံ ဗြူမိ ဗြာဟ္မဏံ.

He who knows his former abodes, who sees the heavens and the planes of misery, and has reached the destruction of birth; the sage who has perfected direct knowledge, who has completed all that is to be completed—him I call a brahmin.

ဗြာဟ္မဏဝဂ္ဂေါ ဆဗ္ဗီသတိမော နိဋ္ဌိတော.

The Chapter on the Brahmin, the Twenty-sixth, is concluded.

(ဧတ္တာဝတာ သဗ္ဗပဌမေ ယမကဝဂ္ဂေ စုဒ္ဒသ ဝတ္ထူနိ, အပ္ပမာဒဝဂ္ဂေ နဝ, စိတ္တဝဂ္ဂေ နဝ, ပုပ္ဖဝဂ္ဂေ ဒွါဒသ, ဗာလဝဂ္ဂေ ပန္နရသ, ပဏ္ဍိတဝဂ္ဂေ ဧကာဒသ, အရဟန္တဝဂ္ဂေ ဒသ, သဟဿဝဂ္ဂေ စုဒ္ဒသ, ပါပဝဂ္ဂေ ဒွါဒသ, ဒဏ္ဍဝဂ္ဂေ ဧကာဒသ, ဇရာဝဂ္ဂေ နဝ, အတ္တဝဂ္ဂေ ဒသ, လောကဝဂ္ဂေ ဧကာဒသ, ဗုဒ္ဓဝဂ္ဂေ နဝ, သုခဝဂ္ဂေ အဋ္ဌ, ပိယဝဂ္ဂေ နဝ, ကောဓဝဂ္ဂေ အဋ္ဌ, မလဝဂ္ဂေ ဒွါဒသ, ဓမ္မဋ္ဌဝဂ္ဂေ ဒသ, မဂ္ဂဝဂ္ဂေ ဒွါဒသ, ပကိဏ္ဏကဝဂ္ဂေ နဝ, နိရယဝဂ္ဂေ နဝ, နာဂဝဂ္ဂေ အဋ္ဌ, တဏှာဝဂ္ဂေ ဒွါဒသ, ဘိက္ခုဝဂ္ဂေ ဒွါဒသ, ဗြာဟ္မဏဝဂ္ဂေ စတ္တာလီသာတိ ပဉ္စာဓိကာနိ တီဏိ ဝတ္ထုသတာနိ.

(Thus, in the very first Chapter of the Pairs, there are fourteen stories; in the Chapter on Heedfulness, nine; in the Chapter on the Mind, nine; in the Chapter on Flowers, twelve; in the Chapter on the Fool, fifteen; in the Chapter on the Wise Person, eleven; in the Chapter on the Arahant, ten; in the Chapter on the Thousands, fourteen; in the Chapter on Evil, twelve; in the Chapter on the Rod, eleven; in the Chapter on Old Age, nine; in the Chapter on the Self, ten; in the Chapter on the World, eleven; in the Chapter on the Buddha, nine; in the Chapter on Happiness, eight; in the Chapter on the Dear, nine; in the Chapter on Anger, eight; in the Chapter on Impurities, twelve; in the Chapter on the Just, ten; in the Chapter on the Path, twelve; in the Miscellaneous Chapter, nine; in the Chapter on Hell, nine; in the Chapter on the Elephant, eight; in the Chapter on Craving, twelve; in the Chapter on the Bhikkhu, twelve; in the Chapter on the Brahmin, forty—thus making three hundred and five stories.)

သတေဝီသစတုဿတာ, စတုသစ္စဝိဘာဝိနာ;

သတတ္တယဉ္စ ဝတ္ထူနံ, ပဉ္စာဓိကံ သမုဋ္ဌိတာတိ).

Four hundred and twenty-three verses, revealing the Four Truths; and three hundred and five stories have been compiled.

Summary of the Chapters of the Dhammapada The Twin Verses, Heedfulness, Mind, Flowers, the Fool, and the Wise. The Arahant, the Thousands, Evil, Punishment, Old Age, Self and the World. The Buddha, Happiness, Affection, Anger, Impurity, the Just, and the Path. Miscellaneous, Hell, the Elephant, Craving, the Monk, and the Brahmin. Summary of the Verses In the Twin Verses, there are twenty verses. In Heedfulness and the World, there are twelve verses. In Affection, there are eleven verses, and in Mind and Old Age. In Flowers, the Fool, and the Thousands; in the Buddha, the Path, and Miscellaneous. There are sixteen in the Wise and Anger; in Hell and the Elephant, fourteen. In the Arahants, ten verses; in Evil and Happiness, thirteen. Seventeen in Punishment and the Just; in Impurity, twenty-one. In the Craving Chapter, twenty-seven; in the Monk Chapter, twenty-three. In the Brahmin Chapter, forty-one. Total: four hundred and twenty-three.

ဓမ္မပဒေ ဝဂ္ဂါနမုဒ္ဒါနံ –

Index of the Chapters in the Dhammapada:

ယမကပ္ပမာဒေါ [Pg.75] စိတ္တံ, ပုပ္ဖံ ဗာလေန ပဏ္ဍိတော;

အရဟန္တော သဟဿဉ္စ, ပါပံ ဒဏ္ဍေန တေ ဒသ.

The Pairs, Heedfulness, the Mind, Flowers, the Fool, the Wise Person; the Arahant, the Thousands, Evil, and the Rod—these are the ten.

ဇရာ အတ္တာ စ လောကော စ, ဗုဒ္ဓေါ သုခံ ပိယေန စ;

ကောဓော မလဉ္စ ဓမ္မဋ္ဌော, မဂ္ဂဝဂ္ဂေန ဝီသတိ.

Old Age, the Self, and the World, the Buddha, Happiness, and the Dear; Anger, Impurities, the Just, and with the Chapter on the Path, it is twenty.

ပကိဏ္ဏံ နိရယော နာဂေါ, တဏှာ ဘိက္ခု စ ဗြာဟ္မဏော;

ဧတေ ဆဗ္ဗီသတိ ဝဂ္ဂါ, ဒေသိတာဒိစ္စဗန္ဓုနာ.

Miscellaneous, Hell, the Elephant, Craving, the Bhikkhu, and the Brahmin; these twenty-six chapters were taught by the Kinsman of the Sun.

ဂါထာနမုဒ္ဒါနံ –

Index of the Verses:

ယမကေ ဝီသတိ ဂါထာ, အပ္ပမာဒမှိ ဒွါဒသ;

ဧကာဒသ စိတ္တဝဂ္ဂေ, ပုပ္ဖဝဂ္ဂမှိ သောဠသ.

In the Pairs, twenty verses; in Heedfulness, twelve; eleven in the Chapter on the Mind; in the Chapter on Flowers, sixteen.

ဗာလေ စ သောဠသ ဂါထာ, ပဏ္ဍိတမှိ စတုဒ္ဒသ;

အရဟန္တေ ဒသ ဂါထာ, သဟဿေ ဟောန္တိ သောဠသ.

In the Fool, sixteen verses; in the Wise Person, fourteen; in the Arahant, ten verses; in the Thousands, there are sixteen.

တေရသ ပါပဝဂ္ဂမှိ, ဒဏ္ဍမှိ ဒသ သတ္တ စ;

ဧကာဒသ ဇရာ ဝဂ္ဂေ, အတ္တဝဂ္ဂမှိ တာ ဒသ.

Thirteen in the Chapter on Evil; in the Rod, seventeen; eleven in the Chapter on Old Age; in the Chapter on the Self, ten.

ဒွါဒသ [Pg.76] လောကဝဂ္ဂမှိ, ဗုဒ္ဓဝဂ္ဂမှိ ဌာရသ ;

သုခေ စ ပိယဝဂ္ဂေ စ, ဂါထာယော ဟောန္တိ ဒွါဒသ.

Twelve in the Chapter on the World; in the Chapter on the Buddha, eighteen; in Happiness and in the Dear, there are twelve verses each.

စုဒ္ဒသ ကောဓဝဂ္ဂမှိ, မလဝဂ္ဂေကဝီသတိ;

သတ္တရသ စ ဓမ္မဋ္ဌေ, မဂ္ဂဝဂ္ဂေ သတ္တရသ.

Fourteen in the Chapter on Anger; in the Chapter on Impurities, twenty-one; seventeen in the Chapter on the Just; in the Chapter on the Path, seventeen.

ပကိဏ္ဏေ သောဠသ ဂါထာ, နိရယေ နာဂေ စ စုဒ္ဒသ;

ဆဗ္ဗီသ တဏှာဝဂ္ဂမှိ, တေဝီသ ဘိက္ခုဝဂ္ဂိကာ.

Sixteen verses in the Miscellaneous; in Hell and in the Elephant, fourteen each; twenty-six in the Chapter on Craving; twenty-three in the Chapter on the Bhikkhu.

ဧကတာလီသဂါထာယော, ဗြာဟ္မဏေ ဝဂ္ဂမုတ္တမေ;

ဂါထာသတာနိ စတ္တာရိ, တေဝီသ စ ပုနာပရေ;

ဓမ္မပဒေ နိပါတမှိ, ဒေသိတာဒိစ္စဗန္ဓုနာတိ.

Forty-one verses in the Chapter on the Brahmin, the supreme chapter; four hundred and twenty-three verses in all have been taught in this Dhammapada collection by the Kinsman of the Sun.

ဓမ္မပဒပါဠိ နိဋ္ဌိတာ.

The Pāli text of the Dhammapada is concluded.