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# Dhammapada 170

Dhammapada 170

- **Language:** Pāli

### [170](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada.170)

Yathā pubbuḷakaṃ passe,  
yathā passe marīcikaṃ;  
Evaṃ lokaṃ avekkhantaṃ,  
maccurājā na passati.

> Look upon the world as a bubble, look upon it as a mirage: the king of death does not see him who thus looks down upon the world.  
> — 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.170) — Friedrich Max Müller 1881, English
- [Dhammavärsid](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada~et-thitanana.170) — et
- [Kinh Pháp Cú](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada~vi-phantuananh.170) — vi
- [Dhamma-Sprüche](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada~de-sabbamitta.170) — German
- [დჰამმაპადა (ჭეშმარიტების სწავლება)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada~ka-luka.170) — Georgian
- [Sayings of the Dhamma](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada~en-sujato.170) — English
- [Verses of Dhamma](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada~en-suddhaso.170) — English
- [The Buddha's "Way of Virtue"](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada~en-wagiswara-saunders.170) — 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.13.3.p1) — Eugene Watson Burlingame 1921, English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Dhammapadaṭṭhakathā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada!dhammapadatthakatha.13.3.p1) — Buddhaghosa, Pāli

## Other recensions (2)

- [PTS edition (von Hinüber & Norman 1994)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada*pts.170) — Pāli
- [Input by John Richards](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada*richards.170) — Pāli

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- [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 (1)

- [Pāli Literature and Language](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.geiger-1916.c7.s1.t11.41) — Geiger 1916, English

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