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Show IAST transliterationသံယုတ္တ နိကာယ ၁၊၇၇
The Related Suttas Collection 1.77
၈၊ ဆေတွာဝဂ္ဂ
8. Incinerated
ဣဿရိယသုတ္တ
Authority
“ကိံသု ဣဿရိယံ လောကေ, ကိံသု ဘဏ္ဍာနမုတ္တမံ; ကိံသု သတ္ထမလံ လောကေ, ကိံသု လောကသ္မိမဗ္ဗုဒံ၊
“What is authority in the world? What’s the best of valuables? What in the world is a rusty sword? Who is a plague on the world?
ကိံသု ဟရန္တံ ဝါရေန္တိ, ဟရန္တော ပန ကော ပိယော; ကိံသု ပုနပ္ပုနာယန္တံ, အဘိနန္ဒန္တိ ပဏ္ဍိတာ”တိ၊
Who gets arrested when they take things away? And who is loved when they take things away? And who is approved by the astute when they come again and again?”
“ဝသော ဣဿရိယံ လောကေ, ဣတ္ထီ ဘဏ္ဍာနမုတ္တမံ; ကောဓော သတ္ထမလံ လောကေ, စောရာ လောကသ္မိမဗ္ဗုဒါ၊
“Power is authority in the world. A woman is the best of valuables. Anger in the world is a rusty sword. A bandit is a plague on the world.
စောရံ ဟရန္တံ ဝါရေန္တိ, ဟရန္တော သမဏော ပိယော; သမဏံ ပုနပ္ပုနာယန္တံ, အဘိနန္ဒန္တိ ပဏ္ဍိတာ”တိ၊
A bandit gets arrested when they take things away. And an ascetic is loved when they take things away. An ascetic is approved by the astute when they come again and again.”
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