Dhammapada - Buddhist Scriptures in Verses.

The Dhammapada (Pāli; Prakrit: Dhamapada;^[1] Sanskrit Dharmapada) is a versified Buddhist scripture traditionally ascribed to the Buddha himself. It is one of the best-known texts from the Theravada canon.^[2]

The title, Dhammapada, is a compound term composed of dhamma and pada, each word having a number of denotations and connotations. Generally, dhamma can refer to the Buddha's "doctrine" or an "eternal truth" or "righteousness" or all "phenomena";^[3] and, at its root, pada means "foot" and thus by extension, especially in this context, means either "path" or "verse" (cf. "foot (prosody)") or both.^[4] English translations of this text's title have used various combinations of these and related words.^[5][6]

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A beautiful rendition of the Dhammapada

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