The History of Buddhist Thought c13.s1.3

c13.s1.3

Make a beginning, renounce your home,
To the Buddha-teaching apply yourselves;
Smite away the army of Death,
As an elephant a house of reeds.

Who in this Law and Discipline
Shall vigilantly lead his life,
Abandoning the round of birth,
Shall verily make an end of pain.¹