法句譬喻經 3.p7

Texts from the Buddhist Canon commonly known as Dhammapada, with accompanying narratives 3.p7

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3.p7

There was in former days a certain nobleman, called Su-ta (Sudatta?), residing at Śrāvastī, who had become a disciple of Buddha, and entered on the first path. He had a friend called “Hau-shi" (Sudana?), who was not a believer. On this latter falling sick, and finding no help in any one for whose advice he sent, his friend Sudatta resolved to send for Buddha, and ask him to visit his friend. In compliance with the request Buddha came, and, with his body glorious as the sun, entered the house of Sudana, and sat down. [He then preached a sermon on the moral diseases to which men are liable, and afterwards added these lines]:

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