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Ja 73

The Truth, It Seems: a past life story

3. Saccaṅkirajātaka

The Warding Tree

The Truth, It Seems: a past life story

The truth, it seems, was spoken
by certain people here—
better a floating log
than a certain person.

Translation: German (Julius Dutoit, 1872–1958), published 1908–1916 · in copyright until the end of 2028, source palikanon.com. Pāli and English (SuttaCentral / Bilara, public domain, CC0). See Sources & Thanks.

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