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Show IAST transliterationသံယုတ္တ နိကာယ ၁၊၃
The Related Suttas Collection 1.3
၁၊ နဠဝဂ္ဂ
1. A Reed
ဥပနီယသုတ္တ
Led On
သာဝတ္ထိနိဒါနံ၊
At Sāvatthī.
ဧကမန္တံ ဌိတာ ခေါ သာ ဒေဝတာ ဘဂဝတော သန္တိကေ ဣမံ ဂါထံ အဘာသိ:
Standing to one side, that deity recited this verse in the Buddha’s presence:
“ဥပနီယတိ ဇီဝိတမပ္ပမာယု, ဇရူပနီတဿ န သန္တိ တာဏာ; ဧတံ ဘယံ မရဏေ ပေက္ခမာနော, ပုညာနိ ကယိရာထ သုခါဝဟာနီ”တိ၊
“This life, so very short, is led onward; one led on to old age has no shelter. Seeing this peril in death, do good deeds that bring you to joy.”
“ဥပနီယတိ ဇီဝိတမပ္ပမာယု, ဇရူပနီတဿ န သန္တိ တာဏာ; ဧတံ ဘယံ မရဏေ ပေက္ခမာနော, လောကာမိသံ ပဇဟေ သန္တိပေက္ခော”တိ၊
“This life, so very short, is led onward; one led on to old age has no shelter. Seeing this peril in death, a seeker of peace would drop the world’s bait.”
The authoritative text of the Saṁyutta Nikāya is the Pāli text. The English translation is provided as an aid to the study of the original Pāli text. [CREDITS »]
