{"id":"dhp146-156","title":"11. Old Age","languageCodes":["en","pi"],"languageNotes":{"en":"Bhikkhu Sujato · CC0","pi":"Mahāsaṅgīti edition · SuttaCentral"},"chapters":[{"id":"dhp146-156","title":"11. Old Age","units":[{"id":"dhp146:0","sourceIds":["dhp146:0.1","dhp146:0.2","dhp146:0.3","dhp146:0.4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Khuddakanikāya\nDhammapada\nJarāvagga\nVisākhāyasahāyikānaṁvatthu","en":"Minor Collection\nSayings of the Dhamma 146–156\n11. Old Age"}},{"id":"dhp146:1","sourceIds":["dhp146:1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Ko nu hāso kimānando,","en":"What is joy, what is laughter,"}},{"id":"dhp146:2","sourceIds":["dhp146:2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"niccaṁ pajjalite sati;","en":"when the flames are ever burning?"}},{"id":"dhp146:3","sourceIds":["dhp146:3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Andhakārena onaddhā,","en":"Swathed in darkness,"}},{"id":"dhp146:4","sourceIds":["dhp146:4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"padīpaṁ na gavesatha.","en":"would you not seek a light?"}},{"id":"dhp147:0","sourceIds":["dhp147:0"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Sirimāvatthu"}},{"id":"dhp147:1","sourceIds":["dhp147:1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Passa cittakataṁ bimbaṁ,","en":"See this fancy puppet,"}},{"id":"dhp147:2","sourceIds":["dhp147:2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"arukāyaṁ samussitaṁ;","en":"a body built of sores,"}},{"id":"dhp147:3","sourceIds":["dhp147:3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Āturaṁ bahusaṅkappaṁ,","en":"diseased, obsessed 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ohito.","en":"along with conceit and contempt."}},{"id":"dhp151:0","sourceIds":["dhp151:0"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Mallikādevīvatthu"}},{"id":"dhp151:1","sourceIds":["dhp151:1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Jīranti ve rājarathā sucittā,","en":"Fancy chariots of kings wear out,"}},{"id":"dhp151:2","sourceIds":["dhp151:2"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Atho sarīrampi jaraṁ upeti;","en":"and even this body gets old."}},{"id":"dhp151:3","sourceIds":["dhp151:3"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Satañca dhammo na jaraṁ upeti,","en":"But the truth of the good never gets old—"}},{"id":"dhp151:4","sourceIds":["dhp151:4"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Santo have sabbhi pavedayanti.","en":"so the good proclaim to the good."}},{"id":"dhp152:0","sourceIds":["dhp152:0"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Lāḷudāyītheravatthu"}},{"id":"dhp152:1","sourceIds":["dhp152:1"],"kind":"text","text":{"pi":"Appassutāyaṁ puriso,","en":"A person of little 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Not a reconstructed expansion of every repetition. No Malay or Mandarin translation is implied."}