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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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26: The Chapter about Brahmins – 341<br />

The one who speaks the truth<br />

Ven. Pilindavaccha used to speak to everyone using abusive<br />

words which offended many of the monks; they asked the<br />

Buddha about it, and he understood that Ven. Pilindavaccha<br />

was not angry, but was speaking like that habitually because<br />

he had been a brahmin in five hundred previous existences;<br />

and then he spoke this verse about him.<br />

408. Akakkasaṁ viññapaniṁ giraṁ saccaṁ udīraye,<br />

yāya nābhisaje kañci, tam-ahaṁ brūmi brāhmaṇaṁ.<br />

Whoever speaks a word of truth<br />

that is informed and is not coarse,<br />

through which no one would be angry,<br />

that one I say is a brahmin.

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