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# Verses on Dhamma 332

Dhammapada 332

- **Language:** Pāli

### [332](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada.332)

Sukhā matteyyatā loke,  
atho petteyyatā sukhā;  
Sukhā sāmaññatā loke,  
atho brahmaññatā sukhā.

> Pleasant in the world is the state of a mother, pleasant the state of a father, pleasant the state of a Samana, pleasant the state of a Brâhmana.  
> — 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.332) — Friedrich Max Müller 1881, English
- [Dhammavärsid](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada~et-thitanana.332) — et
- [Kinh Pháp Cú](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada~vi-phantuananh.332) — vi
- [Dhamma-Sprüche](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada~de-sabbamitta.332) — German
- [Sayings of the Dhamma](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada~en-sujato.332) — English
- [Verses of Dhamma](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada~en-suddhaso.332) — English
- [The Buddha's "Way of Virtue"](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada~en-wagiswara-saunders.332) — 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.23.8.p9) — Eugene Watson Burlingame 1921, English

## Commentaries (1)

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

## Other recensions (2)

- [PTS edition (von Hinüber & Norman 1994)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada*pts.332) — Pāli
- [Input by John Richards](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada*richards.332) — 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

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