Dhammapada 4.3.47
Dhammapadaṭṭhakathā 4.3.47
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- Pāli
4.3.47
‘‘Pupphāni heva pacinantaṃ, byāsattamanasaṃ naraṃ;
Suttaṃ gāmaṃ mahoghova, maccu ādāya gacchatī’’ti.
47. Even while a man is gathering flowers and is absorbed in pleasure,
Death comes and carries him off, even as a mighty flood overwhelms a sleeping village.
Translations (1)
- Buddhist Legends (Harvard Oriental Series 28–30) — Eugene Watson Burlingame 1921, English
Linked texts (1)
- Dhammapada — Pāli