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# Dhammapada 26

Dhammapada 26

- **Language:** Pāli

### [26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada.26)

Pamādamanuyuñjanti,  
bālā dummedhino janā;  
Appamādañca medhāvī,  
dhanaṃ seṭṭhaṃva rakkhati.

> Fools follow after vanity, men of evil wisdom. The wise man keeps earnestness as his best jewel.  
> — 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.26) — Friedrich Max Müller 1881, English
- [Dhammavärsid](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada~et-thitanana.26) — et
- [Kinh Pháp Cú](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada~vi-phantuananh.26) — vi
- [Dhamma-Sprüche](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada~de-sabbamitta.26) — German
- [დჰამმაპადა (ჭეშმარიტების სწავლება)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada~ka-luka.26) — Georgian
- [Sayings of the Dhamma](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada~en-sujato.26) — English
- [Verses of Dhamma](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada~en-suddhaso.26) — English
- [The Buddha's "Way of Virtue"](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada~en-wagiswara-saunders.26) — 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.2.4.p1) — Eugene Watson Burlingame 1921, English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Dhammapadaṭṭhakathā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada!dhammapadatthakatha.2.4.p1) — Buddhaghosa, Pāli

## Other recensions (2)

- [PTS edition (von Hinüber & Norman 1994)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada*pts.26) — Pāli
- [Input by John Richards](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada*richards.26) — Pāli

## Linked texts (8)

- [Theragāthā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.theragatha.16.8.18.1) — Pāli
- [Aṅgulimālasutta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.majjhima.86.18.51) — Pāli
- [Saddhāsutta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.samyutta.1.1.36.5.1) — Pāli
- [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 (6)

- [A History of Indian Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.winternitz-1927.v2.c19.s3.t2.81) — Winternitz 1927, English
- [L'art gréco-bouddhique du Gandhâra: étude sur les origines de l'influence classique dans l'art bouddhique de l'Inde et de l'Extrême-Orient](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.foucher-1905.v2.c14.s4.18) — Foucher 1905, French
- [A History of Pāli Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.law-1933.v1.c7.s2.t5.108) — Law 1933, English
- [The State in Ancient India: A Study in the Structure and Practical Working of Political Institutions in North India in Ancient Times](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.prasad-1928.c10.14) — Prasad 1928, English
- [Aspects of Mahāyāna Buddhism and its Relation to Hīnayāna](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.dutt-1930.c7.s3.t1.6) — Dutt 1930, English
- [Pāli Literature and Language](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.geiger-1916.c7.s2.t3.97) — Geiger 1916, English

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