Texts from the Buddhist canon : commonly known as Dhammapada

68 DHAMMAPADA.
suflfers more in prospect of tlie future. The man
who repents (mourns) now, repents hereafter. On
account of his evil deeds he mourns in both worlds ;
seeing his own evil works, he endures the grief con-
sequent on guilt (in this world), and he inherits the
misery ^of his evil deeds (in the next)."
Buddha having addressed the people and the Prince
Jeta at further length, on the folly of covetousness and an
evil ambition, and Viradhaka having, as the prediction
went, fallen into the condition of a lost man, the whole
assembly was convinced, and were brought to a knowledge
of the truth.