A Collection of Buddhist Wisdom Verses - Ancient Buddhist Texts

8: Words
158. Imaṁ so sayanaṁ seti, sa-y-imaṁ passasi, Sārathī,
Yo vācaṁ sandhibhedassa pisuṇassa nibodhati.
He lies there brought down to the ground,
This is the fate of anyone
Who attends to a slanderer,
To the one who breaks apart bonds.
159. Te janā sukham-edhanti, narā Saggagatā-r-iva,
Ye vācaṁ sandhibhedassa nāvabodhanti, Sārathī.
Those people will gain happiness,
Like those people gone to Heaven,
Who do not attend to the word
Of that one who breaks apart bonds.
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