— The Dhammapada, verse 248 (tr. F. Max Müller, 1881)
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This is verse 248 of the Dhammapada, from the chapter called Impurity — the impurities blown off little by little, as a smith purifies silver.
The Dhammapada is a collection of 423 verses in Pali, among the oldest and most widely read records of the Buddha’s teaching. This English translation is by F. Max Müller (1881), the pioneering Oxford scholar of Indian texts; the verse number is cited with this quote.
