Pali - Every few days - [B212]
Gair/Karunatillake - Chapter 11 � Further Readings
Ex. 1 (Part 1 of 3)
�Na tva.m addasaa manussesu itthi.m vaa purisa.m vaa
aasiitika.m vaa naavutika.m vaa vassasatika.m vaa
jaatiyaa, ji.n.na.m gopaanasiva�nka.m bhogga.m
da.n.daparaaya.na.m pavedhamaana.m gacchanta.m
aatura.m gatayobbana.m kha.n.dadanta.m palitakesa.m
viluuna.m khallita.msiro valita.m
tilakaahatagattan�ti?
�Have you not seen in the world, a woman or a man,
eighty, ninety, or a hundred years from birth,
decrepit, crooked like a gable, bent over, tottering
on a stick, going along trembling, sick, aged, with
broken teeth, gray and scanty hair, bald, wrinkled,
and with blotchy limbs?�
Tassa te vi��ussa sato mahallakassa na etadahosi:
�Aham pi kho�mhi jaraadhammo jara.m anatiito.
Handaaha.m kalyaa.na.m karomi, kaayena vaacaaya
manasaa�ti?
�Being a wise and mature person, has it not occurred
to you: �I too am of the nature to grow old, I am not
free from old age. Well then, let me do good by body,
speech, and mind�?�