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# 經律異相 30.11

經律異相 30.11

- **Language:** Classical Chinese

### [30.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121.30.11)

多作寶華　結步搖綺　廣積德香  
所生轉好　琦草芳華　不逆風熏  
近道敷開　德人遍香　栴檀多香  
青蓮芳花　雖曰是真　不如戒香  
華香氣微　不可謂真　持戒之香  
到天殊勝　戒具成就　行無放逸  
定意度脫　長離魔道（出法句經第二卷）

> Though one makes many jeweled flowers, / And crafts dangling ornaments of silk, / It is by widely amassing the fragrance of virtue / That one's rebirths become ever finer. / Rare herbs and fragrant blossoms / Do not send their scent against the wind; / The fragrance of a virtuous person, / Blossoming near the Way, pervades all directions. / Sandalwood and abundant perfumes, / Blue lotuses and fragrant flowers— / Though these be called genuine, / They do not equal the fragrance of precepts. / The fragrance of flowers is faint, / And cannot be called genuine; / The fragrance of upholding the precepts / Reaches up to the heavens, unsurpassed. / With precepts fully accomplished, / And practicing without indolence, / Delivered by focused mind, / One departs forever from the path of Māra. (From the second fascicle of the Dharmapada)  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2121~en-mt.30.11) — English, machine translation

## Linked texts (1)

- [法句譬喻經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharmapada.udanavarga*zh-faju.2.5) — Classical Chinese

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