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# Dhammapada 66

Dhammapada 66

- **Language:** Pāli

### [66](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada.66)

Caranti bālā dummedhā,  
amitteneva attanā;  
Karontā pāpakaṃ kammaṃ,  
yaṃ hoti kaṭukapphalaṃ.

> Fools of little understanding have themselves  
> \[60. 'Life,' samsâra, is the constant revolution of birth and death which goes on for ever until the knowledge of the true law or the true doctrine of Buddha enables a man to free himself from samsâra, and to enter into Nirvâna. See Buddhaghosha's Parables, Parable XIX, p. 134.  
> — 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.66) — Friedrich Max Müller 1881, English
- [Dhammavärsid](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada~et-thitanana.66) — et
- [Kinh Pháp Cú](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada~vi-phantuananh.66) — vi
- [Dhamma-Sprüche](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada~de-sabbamitta.66) — German
- [დჰამმაპადა (ჭეშმარიტების სწავლება)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada~ka-luka.66) — Georgian
- [Sayings of the Dhamma](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada~en-sujato.66) — English
- [Verses of Dhamma](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada~en-suddhaso.66) — English
- [The Buddha's "Way of Virtue"](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada~en-wagiswara-saunders.66) — 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.5.7.p1) — Eugene Watson Burlingame 1921, English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Dhammapadaṭṭhakathā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada!dhammapadatthakatha.5.7.p1) — Buddhaghosa, Pāli

## Other recensions (2)

- [PTS edition (von Hinüber & Norman 1994)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada*pts.66) — Pāli
- [Input by John Richards](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.dhammapada*richards.66) — Pāli

## Linked texts (7)

- [Khemasutta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.samyutta.1.2.22.2.1) — Pāli
- [Nettippakaraṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.nettippakarana) — Mahākaccāna, 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

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