Note 268 — GLORY BE TO THE BLESSED, THE HOLY, THE ALL-WISE ONE.
Robert Cæsar Childers translation
The whole of this story, including the introduction, is found also, word for word, in the commentary on the ‘Scripture Verses’ (Fausböll, pp. 302-305); and the commentator adds that the Buddha then further uttered the 141st verse of that collection:
Not nakedness, not plaited hair, not dirt, Not fasting oft, nor lying on the ground; Not dust and ashes, nor vigils hard and stern, Can purify that man who still is tossed Upon the waves of doubt!
The same verse occurs in the Chinese work translated by Mr. Beal (The ’Dhammapada, etc.,’ p. 96). Another verse of similar purport has been quoted above (p. 69), and a third will be found in Āmagandha Sutta (Sutta Nipāta, p. 168, verse 11). The same sentiment occurs in the Mahā-Bhārta, iii. 13445, translated in Muir’s ‘Metrical Translations from Sanskrit Writers,’ p. 75, and in the Northern Buddhist work Divyāvadāna (Burnouf, Introduction à l’Histoire du Bouddhisme Indien, p. 313).