At Sāvatthī. Then, late at night, the glorious godling Dāmali, lighting up the entire Jeta’s Grove, went up to the Buddha, bowed, stood to one side, and spoke this verse in the Buddha’s presence: “This is what should be done by a brahmin:
unrelenting striving. Then, with the giving up of sensual pleasures, they won’t hope to be reborn.” “The brahmin has nothing left to do,”
PL
Padhānaṁ akilāsunā; Kāmānaṁ vippahānena, Na tenāsīsate bhavan”ti. “Natthi kiccaṁ brāhmaṇassa,
EN
said the Buddha to Dāmali, “for they’ve completed their task. So long as a personage fails to gain a footing in the river, they swim with every limb.
PL
(dāmalīti bhagavā) Katakicco hi brāhmaṇo; Yāva na gādhaṁ labhati nadīsu, Āyūhati sabbagattebhi jantu;
EN
But someone who has gained a footing <j>and stands on dry land need not swim, <j>for they have reached the far shore. Dāmali, this is a simile for the brahmin, alert, a meditator who has ended defilements.
At Sāvatthī. Then, late at night, the glorious godling Dāmali, lighting up the entire Jeta’s Grove, went up to the Buddha, bowed, stood to one side, and spoke this verse in the Buddha’s presence: “This is what should be done by a brahmin:
unrelenting striving. Then, with the giving up of sensual pleasures, they won’t hope to be reborn.” “The brahmin has nothing left to do,”
PL
Padhānaṁ akilāsunā; Kāmānaṁ vippahānena, Na tenāsīsate bhavan”ti. “Natthi kiccaṁ brāhmaṇassa,
EN
said the Buddha to Dāmali, “for they’ve completed their task. So long as a personage fails to gain a footing in the river, they swim with every limb.
PL
(dāmalīti bhagavā) Katakicco hi brāhmaṇo; Yāva na gādhaṁ labhati nadīsu, Āyūhati sabbagattebhi jantu;
EN
But someone who has gained a footing <j>and stands on dry land need not swim, <j>for they have reached the far shore. Dāmali, this is a simile for the brahmin, alert, a meditator who has ended defilements.
Sutraya