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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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13: The Chapter about the World – 169<br />

Good deeds cover bad ones<br />

Aṅgulimāla was misled into killing many hundreds of people,<br />

but later met the Buddha who converted him, and he soon<br />

became an Arahat; later he was recognised as the former<br />

killer and was stoned to death; the monks asked where he was<br />

reborn, and the Buddha explained he was not reborn at all,<br />

and spoke this verse about him.<br />

173. Yassa pāpaṁ kataṁ kammaṁ kusalena pithīyati –<br />

sŏ imaṁ lokaṁ pabhāseti abbhā mutto va candimā.<br />

The person whose wicked deed is<br />

covered over by a good deed –<br />

that one shines brightly on this world<br />

like the moon released from a cloud.

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