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Dhammapada 50

Dhammapada 50

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Pāli

50

Na paresaṃ vilomāni,
na paresaṃ katākataṃ;
Attanova avekkheyya,
katāni akatāni ca.

Not the perversities of others, not their sins
[46. The flower-arrows of Mâra, the tempter, are borrowed from Kâma, the Hindu god of love. For a similar expression see Lalita-vistara, ed. Calc. p. 40, l. 20, mâyâmarîkisadrisâ vidyutphenopamâs kapalâh. It is on account of this parallel passage that I prefer to translate marîki by 'mirage,' and not by 'sunbeam,' as Fausböll, or by 'solar atom,' as Weber proposes. The expression, 'he will never see the king of death,' is supposed to mean Arhatship by Childers, s.v. nibbâna, p. 270.

Friedrich Max Müller 1881, The Dhammapada (Sacred Books of the East 10.1)

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