Friday, July 29, 2016

Dhammapada 102, 103 [Khuddaka Nikaya]


8 - Sahassavaggo, Thousands
3 - Kundalakesitheri Vatthu

Yo ca gatha satam bhase, anatthapadasamhita;
ekam dhammapadam seyyo, yam sutva upasammati.
Yo sahassam sahassena, sangame manuse jine;
ekanca jeyyamattanam, sa ve sangamajuttamo.
102: Better than the recitation of a hundred verses that are senseless and unconnected with the realization of Nibbana, is the recitation of a single verse of the Teaching (Dhamma), if on hearing it one is calmed.
103: A man may conquer a million men in battle, but one who conquers himself is, indeed, the greatest of conquerors.
Reference: Mya Tin, Daw, tr. The Dhammapada: Verses and Stories. Rangoon: Burma Tipitaka Association, 1986.

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Thursday, July 21, 2016

Dhamma Terms (74)


ပထမေက်ာ္ /pahtamagjo/ n person who stands first in ပထမၾကီး class of ပထမျပန္ examination.
ပထမၾကီး /pahtamagji:/ n highest class of ပထမျပန္ examination.
ပထမငယ္ /pahtamange/ n lowest class of ပထမျပန္ examination.
ပထမျပန္စာေမးပြဲ /pahtamabjan sa mei: bwe:/ 

n examination held to text one's knowledge of Buddhist scriptures.
ပထမလတ္ /pahtamala'/ n intermediate class of ပထမျပန္ examination.
ပထမဝါဆုိ /pahtama. wa zou/ 

n the first month of Wazo (of thirty days) in an intercalary year. See also ဝါထပ္၊ ဒုတိယဝါဆို.
ပထဝီ /pahtawi/ 
n 1 solidity (commonly described as “element of earth'). 2 earth. 3 Same as ပထဝီဝင္ n. See also ဓါတ္ၾကီးေလးပါး. [Pali ပထဝီ]
ပထဝီဓာတ္ /pahtawi da'/ n state of hardness or softness.
ပထဝီဝင္ /pahtawi win/ n geography. [Pali ပထဝီ+ဝံသ]
ပဒ /bada./ n word. [Pali ပဒ]
ပေဒသရာဇ္ /padei thari'/ n feuda lord [Pali ပေဒသရာဇ]
ပေဒသာ /padei dha/ n variety [Pali ပေဒသ]
ပေဒသာပင္ /badei dhabin/ n ... 2 tree shaped stand where various articles of offering are hung. ...
ပဓာန /pada na./ 

n 1 what is essential; essence. 2 what is fundamental; decisive factor (as in လူသာ ~ ). [Pali ပဓာန]
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