Texts from the Buddhist canon : commonly known as Dhammapada

HELL. 141
to his destruction were these— ist, pretending falsely to
have arrived at supreme wisdom; 2d, having -wickedly-
slandered Buddha. And for these two sins he and his
followers have gone to perdition ; and then he repeated
these stanzas :
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" He who, by false assumptions, seeks reward
he who, having done a thing, has not in so doing
acted uprightly ; he who has maliciously slandered
an innocent man, and would control the world by
(such) false pretences—that man, dragged down by
his guilt, must fall into hell ; as a man confined in
a stronghold outside a city, guarded without and
within, cannot escape, such is his lot. Carefully
guarding one's heart, no unholy thought can arise
but failing in this, misery accrues, and in the end
that man goes to perdition."
On this Buddha relates an anecdote of five hundred
monkeys with their king, who had quarrelled with another
king and his followers, and who, being unahle to sustain
the conflict, ended their lives as MSyapa and his followers
had done {i.e., by jumping into the sea in search of a beau-
tiful mountain full of delicious fruits, &c., and on the king
not returning, his attendants all followed his example, and
perished). These five hundred monkeys, Buddha ex-
plained, were K^lyapa and his followers.
The King having heard these words, was filled with joy,
and departed.
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