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Verses on Dhamma 153

PTS edition (von Hinüber & Norman 1994) 153

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Pāli

153

anekajātisaṃsāraṃ sandhāvissaṃ anibbisaṃ /
gahakārakaṃ gavesanto, dukkhā jāti punappunaṃ. //

, 154. Looking for the maker of this tabernacle, I shall have to run through a course of many births, so long as I do not find (him); and painful is birth again and again. But now, maker of the tabernacle, thou hast been seen; thou shalt not make up
[149. In the Rudrâyanâvadâna of the Divyâvadâna this verse appears as,
Yânîmâny apariddhâni vikshiptâni diso disah,
Kapotavarnâny asthîni tâni drishtvaiha kâ ratih.
See Schiefner, Mél. Asiat. VIII, p. 589; Gâtaka, vol. i. p. 322.

Friedrich Max Müller 1881, The Dhammapada (Sacred Books of the East 10.1)

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