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Thag 2.10

Vasabha

Vasabhattheragāthā

from: The Book of the Twos

Chapter One

Vasabha

First one kills oneself,
then one kills others.
One kills oneself, really dead,
like one who kills birds using a dead bird as a decoy.

A brahmin’s color is not on the outside;
a brahmin is colored on the inside.
Whoever harbors bad deeds
is truly a dark one, Sujampati.

Translation: German (Ayyā Sabbamittā), English (Bhikkhu Sujato). Source: SuttaCentral / Bilara (public domain, CC0).

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