---
title: "The Dhammapada · Dhammapada"
author: "The Buddha"
translator: "Bhikkhu Sujato"
title_ru: "Дхаммапада"
author_ru: "Будда"
languages: [pi, en]
shelf: "Pali Canon"
section: 13 of 26
url: https://scriptura.si/works/pali-dhammapada/13/
cite: "The Buddha, tr. Bhikkhu Sujato, The Dhammapada · Dhammapada, section 13. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/pali-dhammapada/13/"
---

# The Dhammapada · Dhammapada

*The Buddha, tr. Bhikkhu Sujato*

Russian: Дхаммапада, Будда

The 423 verses of the Path of the Teaching, in twenty-six chapters: the pairs, vigilance, the mind, flowers, the fool, the wise, the brahmin.

> Pali: the Mahāsaṅgīti Tipiṭaka (Buddha Jayanti edition, 2500), from SuttaCentral’s bilara-data, dedicated to the public domain (CC0).

> English: Bhikkhu Sujato, from SuttaCentral’s bilara-data, dedicated to the public domain (CC0). Notes are not included.

> Rows follow the segment numbers the two texts share, gathered into paragraphs; verse keeps its lines.

## 13. The World · Dhp 167–178

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/pali-dhammapada/13/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/pali-dhammapada/13/#p-N

[¶0] Dhp 167

> Pali: Dhp 167 · Daharabhikkhuvatthu

[¶1] Don’t resort to lowly things,
don’t abide in negligence,
don’t resort to wrong views,
don’t perpetuate the world.

> Pali: Hīnaṁ dhammaṁ na seveyya,
pamādena na saṁvase;
Micchādiṭṭhiṁ na seveyya,
na siyā lokavaḍḍhano.

[¶2] Dhp 168

> Pali: Dhp 168 · Suddhodanavatthu

[¶3] Get up, don’t be heedless,
live by principle, with good conduct.
For one of good conduct sleeps at ease,
in this world and the next.

> Pali: Uttiṭṭhe nappamajjeyya,
dhammaṁ sucaritaṁ care;
Dhammacārī sukhaṁ seti,
asmiṁ loke paramhi ca.

[¶4] Dhp 169

> Pali: Dhp 169

[¶5] Live by principle, with good conduct,
don’t conduct yourself badly.
For one of good conduct sleeps at ease,
in this world and the next.

> Pali: Dhammaṁ care sucaritaṁ,
na naṁ duccaritaṁ care;
Dhammacārī sukhaṁ seti,
asmiṁ loke paramhi ca.

[¶6] Dhp 170

> Pali: Dhp 170 · Pañcasatavipassakabhikkhuvatthu

[¶7] Look upon the world
as a bubble
or a mirage,
then the King of Death won’t see you.

> Pali: Yathā pubbuḷakaṁ passe,
yathā passe marīcikaṁ;
Evaṁ lokaṁ avekkhantaṁ,
maccurājā na passati.

[¶8] Dhp 171

> Pali: Dhp 171 · Abhayarājakumāravatthu

[¶9] Come, see this world decked out
like a fancy royal chariot.
Here fools founder,
but the discerning are not chained.

> Pali: Etha passathimaṁ lokaṁ,
cittaṁ rājarathūpamaṁ;
Yattha bālā visīdanti,
natthi saṅgo vijānataṁ.

[¶10] Dhp 172

> Pali: Dhp 172 · Sammajjanattheravatthu

[¶11] He who once was heedless,
but turned to heedfulness,
shines upon this world
like the moon freed from clouds.

> Pali: Yo ca pubbe pamajjitvā,
pacchā so nappamajjati;
Somaṁ lokaṁ pabhāseti,
abbhā muttova candimā.

[¶12] Dhp 173

> Pali: Dhp 173 · Aṅgulimālattheravatthu

[¶13] Someone whose bad deed
is supplanted by the good,
shines upon this world,
like the moon freed from clouds.

> Pali: Yassa pāpaṁ kataṁ kammaṁ,
kusalena pidhīyati;
Somaṁ lokaṁ pabhāseti,
abbhā muttova candimā.

[¶14] Dhp 174

> Pali: Dhp 174 · Pesakāradhītāvatthu

[¶15] Blind is the world,
few are those who clearly see.
Only a handful go to heaven,
like a bird freed from a net.

> Pali: Andhabhūto ayaṁ loko,
tanukettha vipassati;
Sakuṇo jālamuttova,
appo saggāya gacchati.

[¶16] Dhp 175

> Pali: Dhp 175 · Tiṁsabhikkhuvatthu

[¶17] Swans fly by the sun’s path,
psychic sages fly through space.
The attentive leave the world,
having vanquished Māra with his legions.

> Pali: Haṁsādiccapathe yanti,
ākāse yanti iddhiyā;
Nīyanti dhīrā lokamhā,
jetvā māraṁ savāhiniṁ.

[¶18] Dhp 176

> Pali: Dhp 176 · Ciñcamāṇavikāvatthu

[¶19] When a personage, spurning the hereafter,
transgresses in just one thing—
lying—
there is no evil they would not do.

> Pali: Ekaṁ dhammaṁ atītassa,
musāvādissa jantuno;
Vitiṇṇaparalokassa,
natthi pāpaṁ akāriyaṁ.

[¶20] Dhp 177

> Pali: Dhp 177 · Asadisadānavatthu

[¶21] The miserly don’t ascend to heaven,
it takes a fool to not praise giving.
The attentive celebrate giving,
and so find happiness in the hereafter.

> Pali: Na ve kadariyā devalokaṁ vajanti,
Bālā have nappasaṁsanti dānaṁ;
Dhīro ca dānaṁ anumodamāno,
Teneva so hoti sukhī parattha.

[¶22] Dhp 178

> Pali: Dhp 178 · Anāthapiṇḍikaputtakālavatthu

[¶23] The fruit of stream-entry is better
than being the one king of the earth,
than going to heaven,
than lordship over all the world.

> Pali: Pathabyā ekarajjena,
saggassa gamanena vā;
Sabbalokādhipaccena,
sotāpattiphalaṁ varaṁ.

[¶24] > Pali: Lokavaggo terasamo.