ཚའ་མཐའ་མད notes.127

notes.127

127. Bambusa bambos or Bambusa arundinacea. Translated according to the Tib. The Skt. reads (Matsumura 1989, 85 [44]): yaḥ [śā]sanam āryāṇāṃ arhatāṃ dharmajīvināṃ | pratikrośati durmedhā dṛṣṭiṃ niśṛtya pāpikāṃ | phalaṃ kaṇṭakaveṇur vā [phalat]y [ātmavadhāya saḥ || 49 ||, “He who, having resorted to evil views, scorns the teachings of the noble ones who live by the Dharma and are worthy of respect, cultivates the fruit that leads to his own destruction, like the fruit of the bamboo. (Cf. the variant readings: Dhp 164: phalāni kaṭṭhakasseva; GDhp 258 phalāṇi kaḍakaseva; and PDhp 316 phalāni kaṇṭakasseva, given in Matsumura 1989, 85, note on [44].) The bamboo plant is said to blossom and carry fruit very rarely, at large intervals. But when it does bear fruit, the whole plant or forest dies immediately thereafter. This is a well-known trope in Sanskrit Buddhist literature.