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Dhamma Verses (Dhammapada, KN 2)

Pāli verses with English translation in this collection of 423 Dhamma verses, along with their story and moral.

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10: The Chapter about the Stick – 135<br />

Life is driven out by old age and death<br />

The great lay supporter Visākhā asked five hundred women<br />

why they observed the fast-day; they answered they did so<br />

because they want a husband, children, release from their<br />

husbands or Heaven; the Buddha explained that despite all<br />

their suffering most beings still only desire rebirth, and then<br />

he spoke this verse.<br />

135. Yathā daṇḍena gopālo gāvo pāceti gocaraṁ,<br />

evaṁ jarā ca maccu ca āyuṁ pācenti pāṇinaṁ.<br />

Like a cowherd with stick<br />

drives cattle to pasture,<br />

so do old age and death<br />

drive life out of beings.

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