Patna Dhammapada, Patna Dhamma Verses

Patna Dharmapada - 63
[113 ≈ Dhp 307]
Kāṣāyakaṇṭhā bahavo pāpadhammā asaṁyyatā.
Many wearing the monastic robe around their necks are wicked, unrestrained.
Pāpā! Pāpehi kammehi nirayaṁ te upapajjatha.
Wicked ones! Through your wicked deeds, you re-arise in the underworld.
Kāsāvakaṇṭhā bahavo pāpadhammā asaññatā,
Many wearing the monastic robe around their necks are wicked, unrestrained,
pāpā pāpehi kammehi nirayaṁ te upapajjare. 69
the wicked through their wicked deeds re-arise in the underworld.
[114 ≈ Dhp 306]
Abhūtavādī nirayaṁ upeti,
One who speaks what is untrue goes to the underworld,
yo cāpi kattā: ‘Na karomī’ 70 ti āha,
he who says: ‘I do not do’ what he has done,
ubho pi te precca samā bhavanti
both of these are just the same when they have gone
nihīnakammā manujā paratra.
to the hereafter, (they are) humans who did base deeds.
Abhūtavādī nirayaṁ upeti,
One who speaks what is untrue goes to the underworld,
yo vāpi katvā: ‘Na karomī’ ti cāha,
he who says: ‘I do not do’ what he has done,
ubho pi te pecca samā bhavanti
both of these are just the same when they have gone
nihīnakammā manujā parattha.
to the hereafter, (they are) humans who did base deeds.
69
Probably this line with the unfamiliar middle ending -are was unrecognised by the Patna
bhāṇaka, but the change to 2nd person plural in Patna is very awkward, and requires reading the
first word as vocative and reconfiguring the whole sentence.
70
The tense is very awkward and there has been much discussion about the original form of the
verse. It would be easy to read ‘Na akāsī’ ti, ‘I did not do’, but there is no sign of this reading in
the various versions of the verse we receive.