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# Dhammapada 308

Dhammapada 308

- **Language:** Pāli

### [308](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada.308)

Seyyo ayoguḷo bhutto,  
tatto aggisikhūpamo;  
Yañce bhuñjeyya dussīlo,  
raṭṭhapiṇḍamasaññato.

> Better it would be to swallow a heated iron ball, like flaring fire, than that a bad unrestrained fellow should live on the charity of the land.  
> — Friedrich Max Müller 1881, The Dhammapada (Sacred Books of the East 10.1)

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## Translations (8)

- [The Dhammapada (Sacred Books of the East 10.1)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada~en-muller.308) — Friedrich Max Müller 1881, English
- [Dhammavärsid](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada~et-thitanana.308) — et
- [Kinh Pháp Cú](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada~vi-phantuananh.308) — vi
- [Dhamma-Sprüche](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada~de-sabbamitta.308) — German
- [Sayings of the Dhamma](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada~en-sujato.308) — English
- [Verses of Dhamma](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada~en-suddhaso.308) — English
- [The Buddha's "Way of Virtue"](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada~en-wagiswara-saunders.308) — 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.22.3.p1) — Eugene Watson Burlingame 1921, English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Dhammapadaṭṭhakathā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada!dhammapadatthakatha.22.3.p1) — Buddhaghosa, Pāli

## Other recensions (2)

- [PTS edition (von Hinüber & Norman 1994)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada*pts.308) — Pāli
- [Input by John Richards](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada*richards.308) — Pāli

## Linked texts (8)

- [Mahāvibhaṅga](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.vp.suttavibhanga.maha.pj.4.1.3.31) — Pāli
- [Itivuttaka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.itivuttaka.48.5.1) — 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
- [本事經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.other.ksudraka.itivrttakasutra*zh-xuanzang) — 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 (1)

- [Pāli Literature and Language](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.geiger-1916.c7.s2.t1.131) — Geiger 1916, English

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