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# Dhammapada 153

Dhammapada 153

- **Language:** Pāli

### [153](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada.153)

Anekajātisaṃsāraṃ,  
sandhāvissaṃ anibbisaṃ;  
Gahakāraṃ 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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## Translations (9)

- [The Dhammapada (Sacred Books of the East 10.1)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada~en-muller.153) — Friedrich Max Müller 1881, English
- [Dhammavärsid](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada~et-thitanana.153) — et
- [Kinh Pháp Cú](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada~vi-phantuananh.153) — vi
- [Dhamma-Sprüche](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada~de-sabbamitta.153) — German
- [დჰამმაპადა (ჭეშმარიტების სწავლება)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada~ka-luka.153) — Georgian
- [Sayings of the Dhamma](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada~en-sujato.153) — English
- [Verses of Dhamma](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada~en-suddhaso.153) — English
- [The Buddha's "Way of Virtue"](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada~en-wagiswara-saunders.153) — W. D. C. Wagiswara & Kenneth J. Saunders 1912, English
- [Buddhist Legends (Harvard Oriental Series 28–30)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada!dhammapadatthakatha~en-burlingame.11.8.p1) — Eugene Watson Burlingame 1921, English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Dhammapadaṭṭhakathā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada!dhammapadatthakatha.11.8.p1) — Buddhaghosa, Pāli

## Other recensions (2)

- [PTS edition (von Hinüber & Norman 1994)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada*pts.153) — Pāli
- [Input by John Richards](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada*richards.153) — Pāli

## Linked texts (6)

- [Theragāthā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.theragatha) — Pāli
- [Therīgāthā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.therigatha) — Pāli
- [出曜經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharmapada.udanavarga*zh-zhu-fonian) — Classical Chinese
- [法集要頌經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharmapada.udanavarga*zh-tianxizai) — Classical Chinese
- [法句經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharmapada.udanavarga*zh-weiqinan) — Classical Chinese
- [Udānavarga](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharmapada.udanavarga) — Dharmatrāta, Sanskrit

## Discussed in (4)

- [A History of Indian Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s3.t2.28) — Winternitz 1927, English
- [Geschichte der indischen Litteratur](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1905.v2.c16.s3.t2.20) — Winternitz 1905, German
- [Studies in the Origins of Buddhism](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.pande-1957.c18.381) — Pande 1957, English
- [Manual of Indian Buddhism](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.kern-1896.c4.s3.27) — Kern 1896, English

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