Prakrit Dhammapada

SR No.: 020564
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Benimadhab Barua, Sailendranath Mitra
Publisher: Satguru Publications
Publication Year: 1988
Total Pages: 331
Language: Sanskrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari
File Size: 14 MB

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www.kobatirth.orgAcharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
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and 'Old Age' in its first chapter, which contains +1 verses. The Udanavarga and the Prakrit test hare many verses in common. Of the Udāna verses 13 are to be found in the Pali text, four in the Jarà group and the rest in other groups. Fausböll has in his excellent edition of the Dhainmapada noticed a few slokas in the Man-samlitā, the Mahābhārata and the Rāmīyana, containing ascetic reflections on 'Impermanence', similar to those in the Dhammapadla vv, 148 and 150.
3' ?.?.?re: athu ?.
..???
(Cro, 1)
Cf. Saiyatta, 1.., s. 211 :
Dhitam jammi jare nithin duhbaiņņaknyaņi jare Tära manoraman rimbam jarāya abhimadditam.
('f. l'a-klicu-pi-11, sec, 1. (" Impermanency"),
p. 43:"Old age brings with it loss of all bodily attraction".
Cf. Udānav., ch. 1. ("Impermanency'), v. 30 :
* Thou art foolish and despicable, and dost not that which
is right; for that body (rūpa) in which thou delightest will be the cause of thy ruin".
Notes.-M. Separt was able to read only ra athu of the first line.
In his text the sign "?" indicates that there are faint traces of characters, and the bold dots mean that so many letters are completely missing. None but those who have ever seriously attempted the identification of a verse, 80 hopelessly mutilated as the one under discussion, can realise how difficult a task it is to find out a parallel in Pāli or in Buddhist Sanskrit. It was indeed by accident that we after repeated searches chanced upon two verses in the Samyutta,
There aro 23 vores surviving altogether in this chapter and they occor withont break, but the colophon records tho total number as 25; conscquently, two vorscs are missing towards the beginning. .
! M. Senart rends ru with the preceding query (standing for a donbtfal character put apart. Wo read the word in the light of the Pali parallel, jare.
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