THE BUDDHA'S PATH OF VIRTUE

A TRANSLATION OF THE DHAMMAPADA

BY

F.L. WOODWARD, M.A.

WITH A FOREWORD BY

SIR PONNAMBALAM ARUNACHALAM, M.A. (Cantab.)

THEOSOPHICAL PUBLISHING HOUSE

MADRAS—LONDON

1921

TO H.S.O.

CONTENTS

Foreword

Translator's Preface

I. The Pairs
II. Heedfulness
III. The Mind
IV. Flowers
V. Fools
VI. The Wise
VII. The Arahat—The Worthy
VIII. The Thousands
IX. Evil
X. Punishment
XI. Old Age
XII. The Self
XIII. The World
XIV. The Awakened One
XV. Happiness
XVI. Affections
XVII. Anger
XVIII. Impurity
XIX. The Just
XX. The Path
XXI. Divers Verses
XXII. The Evil Way
XXIII. The Elephant
XXIV. Craving
XXV. The Mendicant
XXVI. The Brahmana

FOREWORD

The Dhammapada, of which a metrical translation by Mr. Woodward is herepresented, is a precious Buddhist Scripture which deserves to be widelyknown. The Theosophical Society is to be congratulated on securing socompetent and sympathetic a translator and on publishing it in a popularform.

The Dhammapada is a part of the Khuddaka Nikāya of the BuddhisticCanon and consists of

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