ERRATA
age 122, lat line, for ‘more becoming’ ruad ‘ morences”
Page 13, lino I, for shereal rund Yieral.
Page 161, line 8, for “rightly seeing” rend “right-ocoing Arivan,” baa
7 gh 7 “Tah ening ighi-sesing Ariyan,” be
age 168, line 4, for Ho who hata thus gome" read ‘He the Wayfarer.”
VERSES OF UPLIFT
HONOUR TO THAT EXALTED ONE, ARAHANT, RIGHTLY
AWAKENED|
Carrer [.—ENLIGHTENMENT.
i
‘Tuus heve T heard:! On a certain occasion the Pxalted
One was staying at Uruvelé, on the bank of the river
Neraiijar& at the foot of the bodhi-tree, having just won
the highest wisdom.
‘Now on that oceasion the Fxalted One was seated for
seven days in one posture and experienced the bliss of
release. Then the Hxalted Une, after the lapse of those
seven days, during the first watch of the night, rousing
himself from thst concentration of mind, gave close
attention to causal uprising In direct order," thus:
‘This being, that hecomes; by the arising of this, that
arises, namely: Conditioned by ignorance, activities;
conditioned by activities, cusivusuess; conditioned
by conscionsness, mind-and-body; conditioned by mind~
and-body, the six sense-spheres; conditioned by the six
sunse-npleres, contact; conditioned by contact, feeling;
conditioned by feeling, craving; conditioned by eraving,
-asping; conditioned by grasping, becoming; conditioned
1y becoming, birth; conditioned by birth, old age and
dexth, grief, lamentation, suffering, sorrow and despair
come into being. ‘Thus is the arising of this mass of IIL.
1 or ee font four qua gh. Vim i (Mavagpa, 14. or the
borhitaee legend off Mrs. Rhys Davids’ A Manual of Buddhism,
PG, Mamuat, 16 7, Amiloma, ‘according t the Tie of the baie”
(or caw)
» Of. Kindred Sayings ii, 1f-5 ye2 VERSES OF UPLIFT i
Thereupon the Exalted One, seeing the meaning of
it, at that time gave utterance to this verse of uplift.”
In sooth shen things? grow plain to the ardent, musin
brian? oe a "
His doubis all vanish, since he knows thing-with-its-
cause.*
ii
{Texr 2] Thus have I heard: On a certain occasion.
- os (as. choo) easion
Then . . . the Exalted One, rousing himself from that
concentration of mind, during the middle watch of the
night gave close attention to causal uprising in reverse
order,* thus: This not being, that becomes not; by the
ceasing of this, that ceases to be; namely: By the ceasi
uf ignorance, the ceasing of activities; by the ceasmg of
activities, the ceasing of consciousness; by the ceasing
of conscioumess, the ceasing of mind-and-body; by the
ccasing of mind-and-budy, the ceasing of the six sense-
spheres; by the ceasing of the six sense-spheres, the
ceasing of contact; by the ceasing of contact, the ceasing
of fecling:; by the ceasing of fecling, the ceasing uf uraving:
by the ceasing of craving, the ceasing of grasping; by the
ceasing of grasping, the ceasing of becoming; by the ceas-
ing of hecaming, the ceasing of birth; by the ccasing of
birth, old age and death, grief, lamentation, suffering,
sorrow and despair come to cease. Thus is the ceasing
of this mass of Il.
Thereupon the Exalted One, seeing the meaning of it,
gave utterance to this verse of uplift:
In sooth when things grow plain to the ardent, musing
_ brakmin,
His doubts all vanish, since he knows the wane of causes.*
Fur che Pall vere of wplift soe Pre
+ Diiammd, phases of mature; bot teanlated at Eeponiorj
“ane docrne stewie By
Not, of course, by esate merely, but as at Dhamnc xi.
+ Sehewdhamney, * padesch
* Paton.
4 Paceaye, in the excl literature equivalent to hetu
1, i) ENLIGHTENMENT
ii
2] Thus have I heard: On a certain occasion the
plthed One®” “(ae tn fa). Then. the Bxalved
One . . . during the last watch of the night gave close
attention to causal uprising both in direct and in reverse
order, tirus: This being, thet becomes; by the arising of
this, that arises. This not being, that is not; by the
ceasing of this, that ceases, namely: Conditioned by
orance. . . (as in § i). ‘Thus is the arising of this
mass of Lil. But by the utter fading out and ceasi
of ignorance, the ceasing of activities . . . (az in § ii).
‘Thus is the ending of this macs of II].
3] Thereupon the Exalted One, seeing the meaning
of it, at that time gave utterance to this verse of uplift:
In sooth when idings yrow plain to the anion, musing
brahmin,
Routing the host of
Just us the sun
iv
Thus have I heard: On a certain occasion the Exalted
One was staying at Uruveld, on the bank of the river
Neraijard, under Gostherds’ Banyan, having just von
the highest vvisdom. Now on that occasion the Fevalte
One was seated for seven days in one posture and experi-
enced the bliss of release. ‘Then the Exalted One, after
the lapee of those seven days, roused himself from that
concensration of mind. a
‘Now a certain bréhmin of the Hubunka-jati, of a
carping natare,' came to where the Fxalted One was
‘and on reaching him greeted him courteously, and after
1 Huhunkaatita, DA. followed by ‘has * huhun ’ t karonto
sicerti,*pors about sniffing (eult-ndieg, eeumbling)” Ud. also
er peidestife’ In P28, 1897-1901, p42, Hardy bas * putting
confidence in te seund fag.) Dr, B, Ht Johnstone also thinks it
Iyer to “confidence ritalin! Aner reading ie
Juludee Mes, Rhys Davids of opinion that itahould be Suaubta,
‘Thame of ¢ school cr clan of brBbrics (. Mana, p84), but later
forporten, “Tn such ease the word below in the paths ni-fukamka
Wil hove led to the substitution in the text of hunks for susukée,4 VERSES OF UPLIFT) Civ
the exchange of gteetings and courtdsies, stood at one
side, “As he thus stood that brdhmin suid this to the
rata master Cotga, ‘oftig extent is one a
rahmin ? And again, What ate the things which con-
stitute a brihmin 7%. % va av
Thereupon the ExaltedOhe|
it, at that time gave utterance't
A brakmin, who has harredlon
A man of lruraph and ps
Who has the self comiro!
Who lives the Brahma life,
His is the Brahma-foith,*
No false excrescencas? in oll
el
‘Thus have I heard: On a certain occasion the Exalted
One was staying near Sivatthigat Jeta Grove in Andtha-
ika's Park. Now on that occasion the venerable
Saripatta, Mogyelline the Great, Kassapa the Great,
Kaceayana the Great, Kétshita the Great, Kappina the
Great, Cunda the Great, also the venerable Anuruddha,
Revata® Devadatta and Ananda, came to where the
Exalted One was ff] And the Exalted One saw those
venerable ones from afar as they came, and at the sight
of shem aaid to the monks: ‘Monks, these are brihmins
coming, these are brahmins coming !
hese words a certain monk, a bralunin by birth,
ir to the Halted One: * Pray, sit, to what extent
Al
is one a brahmin, and what are tl
stitute a brahmin ?”
things which con-
imaxa-taraka, but Vin i, 3 abd Uda. -karana.
2 The verses are Mrs, Rhys Devide, Monual, 85.
2 Rahita-papa, s traditional and fanciful etymology of brahmaya,
Of, Dip. 388 and next git
« Brakma-vaday vedeyy
say: Lam a brohinin”
§ Uceada, moral‘ warts.” *uch as riga, deca, mrha, mina, ditthi.”
Gomy, A Te, hth who i onus sealed kana
' Revata, the acacis-grove dweller, not Revatathedoubter, Comy.
vomy. takes it to mean ‘ean justly
La ENLIGHTENMENT 5
Then the Exalted One, seeing the meaning of it, at
that time gave utterance to this verse of uplift
Barring out evil things, wha ener mindful fare
Avwakened, bond-free,—such in the world are surely
brahmins.
vi
Thus have I heard: On a certain occasion the Exalted
One was staying near Rajegaha, in Bamboo Grove, at
the Squirrel? Feeding-ground.
‘Now on that occasion the venerable Kassepe the Great
was staying at Figtree Grotto,’ being sick, afflicted,
stricken with a sore disease. Later on the venerable
‘Kassapa the Great rote up from that sickness. On doing
so this thought occurred to him: What if I were to enter
Risjegaha for alme-quest 7
‘Thereupon as mary as five hundred devas eagerly
busied themselves about the alms-food of the venerable
Kassapa the Great* Ritt the venerable Kassapa tho
Great rejecied their services, and robing himself in the
forenoon took bowl and robe and entercd Rajagaha by
way of the streets where dwelt the poor and needy, the
woavers’ quarter.
‘Now the Exalted One saw the venerable Kassapa the
Great questing for alms in thet quarter. ‘Then the
Exalted One, seeing the meaning of it, at that time gave
utterance to this veree of uplift:
Who hath none else to keep,? who is unknown,
Who is subdued ond fired in the core,*
In thom the cankers are destroyed, the taints
Spued forth,—'tis him I call a brahmana.
7 Gf Sv, 18; KS. v, 66 (whore T wrongly trans. as‘ Pepper tree
Grotio’). On this occtsion he was restored to health on hearing
from the Master talk on the seven limbs of wisdom
2 Of. Ua, p. 2.
+ dnoffapeein. Cf. Bn. v, 65; infr. IIL, 18. Comy.—ekapos,
mnattended oy another (whois) to be mpported by oneself”
“ apadien, But ablitian ace, to Com, ‘retognized for bi
qualities” which, however, adds athavd altanay janépana-vatena no
Ratan.
SBarethe pith or emonee, Coy. vimutt-sie.