[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [The Pāli Canon](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada) › [Basket of Discourses](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp) › [The Minor Collection](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka) › [Dhammapada](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada) › 20 # Dhammapada 20 Dhammapada 20 - **Language:** Pāli ### [20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada.20) Appampi ce saṃhita bhāsamāno, Dhammassa hoti anudhammacārī; Rāgañca dosañca pahāya mohaṃ, Sammappajāno suvimuttacitto; Anupādiyāno idha vā huraṃ vā, Sa bhāgavā sāmaññassa hoti. > The follower of the law, even if he can recite only a small portion (of the law), but, having forsaken passion and hatred and foolishness, possesses true knowledge and serenity of mind, he, caring for nothing in this world or that to come, has indeed a share in the priesthood. > \[20. Sâmañña, which I have rendered by 'priesthood,' expresses all that belongs to, or constitutes a real Samana or Sramana, this being the Buddhist name corresponding to the Brâhmana, or priest, of the orthodox Hindus. Buddha himself is frequently called the Good Samana. Fausböll takes the abstract word sâmañña as corresponding to the Sanskrit sâmânya, 'community,' but Weber has well shown that it ought to be taken as representing srâmanya. He might have quoted the Sâmañña-phala-sutta, of which Burnouf has given such interesting details in his Lotus, p. 449 seq. Fausböll also, in his notes on v. 332, rightly explains sâmaññatâ by srâmanyatâ. See Childers, s.v. sâmañña. > Anupâdiyâno, which I have translated by 'caring for nothing,' has a technical meaning. It is the negative of the fourth Nidâna, the so-called Upâdâna, which Köppen has well explained by Anhänglichkeit, 'taking to the world, loving the world.' Köppen, Die Religion des Buddha, p. 610. Cf. Suttanipâta, v. 470.\] > — Friedrich Max Müller 1881, The Dhammapada (Sacred Books of the East 10.1) - [Previous: 19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada.19) - [Next: v20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada.v20) ## Translations (9) - [The Dhammapada (Sacred Books of the East 10.1)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada~en-muller.20) — Friedrich Max Müller 1881, English - [Dhammavärsid](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada~et-thitanana.20) — et - [Kinh Pháp Cú](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada~vi-phantuananh.20) — vi - [Dhamma-Sprüche](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada~de-sabbamitta.20) — German - [დჰამმაპადა (ჭეშმარიტების სწავლება)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada~ka-luka.20) — Georgian - [Sayings of the Dhamma](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada~en-sujato.20) — English - [Verses of Dhamma](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada~en-suddhaso.20) — English - [The Buddha's "Way of Virtue"](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada~en-wagiswara-saunders.20) — 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.1.14.p10) — Eugene Watson Burlingame 1921, English ## Commentaries (1) - [Dhammapadaṭṭhakathā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada!dhammapadatthakatha.1.14.20_2) — Buddhaghosa, Pāli ## Other recensions (2) - [PTS edition (von Hinüber & Norman 1994)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada*pts.20) — Pāli - [Input by John Richards](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada*richards.20) — Pāli ## Linked texts (5) - [出曜經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharmapada.udanavarga*zh-zhu-fonian) — Classical Chinese - [Patna Dharmapada](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharmapada.patna_dharmapada) — Prakrit - [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) - [A History of Pāli Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.law-1933.v1.c7.s2.t5.108) — Law 1933, English --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada.20) · Pramāṇa