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# Dhammapada 248

Dhammapada 248

- **Language:** Pāli

### [248](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada.248)

Evaṃ bho purisa jānāhi,  
pāpadhammā asaññatā;  
Mā taṃ lobho adhammo ca,  
ciraṃ dukkhāya randhayuṃ.

> O man, know this, that the unrestrained are in a bad state; take care that greediness and vice do not bring thee to grief for a long time!  
> \[244. Pakkhandin is identified by Dr. Fausböll with praskandin, one who jumps forward, insults, or, as Buddhaghosa explains it, one who meddles with other people's business, an interloper. At all events, it is a term of reproach, and, as it would seem, of theological reproach.  
> — 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.248) — Friedrich Max Müller 1881, English
- [Dhammavärsid](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada~et-thitanana.248) — et
- [Kinh Pháp Cú](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada~vi-phantuananh.248) — vi
- [Dhamma-Sprüche](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada~de-sabbamitta.248) — German
- [დჰამმაპადა (ჭეშმარიტების სწავლება)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada~ka-luka.248) — Georgian
- [Sayings of the Dhamma](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada~en-sujato.248) — English
- [Verses of Dhamma](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada~en-suddhaso.248) — English
- [The Buddha's "Way of Virtue"](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada~en-wagiswara-saunders.248) — 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.18.7.p5) — Eugene Watson Burlingame 1921, English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Dhammapadaṭṭhakathā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada!dhammapadatthakatha.18.7.248_2) — Buddhaghosa, Pāli

## Other recensions (2)

- [PTS edition (von Hinüber & Norman 1994)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada*pts.248) — Pāli
- [Input by John Richards](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada*richards.248) — Pāli

## Linked texts (1)

- [法句經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharmapada.udanavarga*zh-weiqinan) — Classical Chinese

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