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Nîti Literature of Burma.
37.
The son of a man of low origin becomes a king's minister, a fool's son a learned man, a pauper's son a millionaire: do not, therefore, despise men.
38.
A pupil who, by a desire of knowledge, learns off a great deal, that knowledge he is unable to reproduce, just as a dumb person, seeing a dream, is unable to give utterance to it.
39.
A potter does not strike a pot to break it, but to fashion it: a teacher beats his pupils to increase their knowledge, not to throw them into the states of suffering.[1]
40.
The man who rolls up the taggara[2] with the palâsa leaf finds that a fragrant odour is emitted from the leaf itself: serving the wise produces a similar result.
- ↑ By apâyesu, the catubbhido apâyaloka, or "Four States of Suffering," are referred to. They are, (1) Naraka-loka, (2) tiracchâna-l°, (3) peta-l°, and (4) asura-l°. The Naraka-l°, or "Hell for Human Beings," has eight subdivisions. Each hell is said to be 10,000 yojanas in length, breadth, and height, and is situated in the interior of the earth. The walls are nine yojanas in thickness, abd their brightness so overpowering that they burst the eyes of those who look at them. The Buddhist hell is a kind of purgatory for the expiation of former sins. It is a temporary state leading to re-birth in a blissful state.
- ↑ The Tabernæmontana coronaria. It is a shrub from which a fragrant powder is obtained.
