A Collection of Buddhist Wisdom Verses - Ancient Buddhist Texts

5: Advantages
Jā 362 Sīlavīmaṁsajātakaṁ
Virtue and Learning
The Bodhisatta wishes to find out which is more
important, virtue or learning, and takes a coin a
day from the King until on the third day he is
arrested. He then understands which is most
valued in the world.
100. Mogho jātī ca vaṇṇā ca, sīlam-eva kiruttamaṁ,
Sīlena anupetassa, sutenattho na vijjati.
Birth and beauty are delusions,
Virtue is supreme it is said,
For one unendowed with virtue,
There is no value in learning.
The First Hundred
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