Dear friends,

(I thought I posted this message before, but I can't find it on the Pali
group page so here it is again.)

I'm making a new bigger better chanting book for our monastery, I found this
nice udana I think I might like to use. There are some verses, and some
stanzas which are not in verse but I suspect are supposed to be. Here they
are:


10. Lokasuttaṃ



30. Evaṃ me sutaṃ– ekaṃ samayaṃ bhagavā uruvelāyaṃ viharati
najjā nerañjarāya tīre bodhirukkhamūle paṭhamābhisambuddho.



Tena kho pana samayena bhagavā sattāhaṃ ekapallaṅkena nisinno hoti
vimutti-sukha-paṭisaṃvedī.



Atha kho bhagavā tassa sattāhassa accayena tamhā samādhimhā
vuṭṭhahitvā Buddha-cakkhunā lokaṃ volokesi. Addasā kho bhagavā
Buddha-cakkhunā volokento satte anekehi santāpehi santappamāne,
anekehi ca pariḷāhehi pariḍayhamāne, rāgajehipi

dosajehipi mohajehipi.



Atha kho bhagavā etam-atthaṃ viditvā tāyaṃ velāyaṃ imaṃ udānaṃ udānesi–



ayaṃ loko santāpajāto,


phassapareto rogaṃ vadati attato;

yena yena hi maññati, tato taṃ hoti aññathā.



aññathābhāvī bhavasatto loko,

bhavapareto bhavamevābhinandati;



yad-abhinandati taṃ bhayaṃ, yassa bhāyati taṃ
dukkhaṃ;

bhava-vippahānāya kho pan-idaṃ brahmacariyaṃ vussati".





*This is the part I suspect is supposed to be verse, I've rearranged the
lines so it looks like verse but the metre is so irregular its hardly a
metre. Any suggestions? Or am I barking up the wrong tree? *



"'Ye hi keci samaṇā vā brāhmaṇā vā

g l g l l l g g g l
g g 5 + 4.5 = 9.5

bhavena bhavassa vippamokkhamāhaṃsu,

l g l l g l g l l
l g g l 4 + 5 = 9

sabbe te avippamuttā bhavasmā-ti vadāmi.

g g g l g l g g l g g l
g l 7 + 4.5 = 11.5





'Ye vā pana keci samaṇā vā brāhmaṇā vā


g g l l g l l l g g g l g
g 6.5 + 4.5 = 11

vibhavena bhavassa nissaraṇamāhaṃsu,


l l g l l g l g l l l
g g l 4.5 + 5 = 9.5

sabbe te anissaṭā bhavasmā'ti vadāmi.


g g g l g l g l g g l
g l 6 + 4.5 = 10.5





"Upadhiñhi paṭicca dukkham-idaṃ sambhoti,

l l g l l g l g l
l g
g g 4.5 + 5 = 9.5

sabb'upādānakkhayā n'atthi dukkhassa sambhavo.

g l g g g l g g l g g l
g l g 6 + 6.5 = 12.5









Lokam-imaṃ passa; puthū avijjāya

g l l g g l l g l g g
l
4.5 + 4.5 =9

paretā bhūtā bhūta-ratā aparimuttā;

l g g g g g l l g l l l
g g 4.5 + 6.5 = 11





ye hi keci bhavā sabbadhi sabbatthatāya

g l g l g g g l l g g l g l
7 + 4 = 11

sabbe te bhavā aniccā dukkhā vipariṇāmadhammā-ti.

g g g l g l g g g g l l l g
l g g 7 + 7 = 14







"Evametaṃ yathābhūtaṃ, sammappaññāya passato;

g l g g l g g g g l g g
l g l g 7 + 7.5 = 11

bhavataṇhā pahīyati, vibhavaṃ nābhinandati.

l l g g l g l l l l g
g l g l l. 5.5 + 5.5 =11



*End of re-versifying attempt.** (This is where the text turns back to verse
in the CSCD, but I notice in John Ireland's trs. he puts the previous three
stanzas in verse, which is why I first wondered if the other stanzas above
were once verse.) *



"Sabbaso taṇhānaṃ khayā, asesavirāganirodho nibbānaṃ;

tassa nibbutassa bhikkhuno, anupādā punabbhavo na hoti.

Abhibhūto māro vijitasaṅgāmo, upaccagā sabbabhavāni tādī"ti.





dasamaṃ;



Nandavaggo tatiyo niṭṭhito.



Thankyou,



Bhikkhu Santidhamma.


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