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A king, the ocean, fire, a craftsman, a greedy person; For these with great desires, great desire is never fulfilled. 358. Health is the greatest gain, contentment is the greatest wealth; Trust is the greatest relative, Nibbāna is the greatest happiness. 359. Go and get alms, you poor one, alms fill up with alms; Rain falling on dry land, water fills up with water. 360. They awaken, they ask, "Give!" say the later people; Seeing the basis of not giving, may it not be like that! 361. A ruby from stone to stone, a pearl from elephant to elephant; Sandalwood from forest to forest, a scholar from place to place. 362. A hero is born among hundreds, a scholar among thousands; A speaker among hundreds of thousands, a giver is rare indeed. 363. Praise a hero who has come from battle, wealth that has come to the house; Praise old rice, and a wife who has passed her youth. 364. Skill that is in books, wealth that is in another's hands; When the occasion arises, that is neither skill nor wealth. 365. Kings have speech as their weapon, ascetics have truth as their weapon; Merchants have wealth as their weapon, the poor have oxen as their weapon. 366. They desire a hero in battles, good speech in a quarrel; Pleasing food and drink, a scholar in matters of benefit. 367. Support a friend in poverty, store grain in a famine; Maintain skill in an assembly, generosity on earth. 368. Giving food in a famine, giving gold in a good time; Giving refuge in fear, is the best of all the best. 369. A swan among crows, a lion among dogs does not shine; A horse is not for donkeys, a scholar is not for fools. 370. A king is not victorious by defeat, one is not victorious by conquering anger; He who conquers a hundred thousand, is not a wife for a husband; Sons are not born from enmity, by whom the old are supported. 371. There is no friend like knowledge, there is no enemy like disease; There is no affection like self-love, there is no strength greater than karma. Where is morality for a woman mixed with men? Where is growth for a meat-eater? Where is truth for a drinker of intoxicants? Where is austerity for one of great anger? How great a burden is ignorance? How far is it for the unrestrained? What is a foreign land to the wise? Who is a foe to one who speaks kindly? Famine is where there is no plowing, offspring where there is a sinner; Quarrels are where there is a fool, fear is not for one who is awake. A foolish woman, a fly's proboscis, an ascetic's water pot; A white pumpkin, betel leaves, are not loathsome to one who enjoys them. Five nights for a sweet-smelling Gandharva, seven nights for one who takes a bow; One month for a well-fed woman, half a month for a clean disciple. Immorality is the stain of a woman, stinginess the stain of a giver; Evil deeds are the stain of this world and the next; But ignorance is a stain greater than that, the ultimate stain. Constant effort is the protection of learning, Modesty is the adornment of a family, knowledge is the adornment of a man; Vigilance is the adornment of a king, But there is absolutely no protection for women except their own nature. Old age destroys beauty, craving destroys all happiness; Anxiety destroys all strength, compassion destroys one's own wealth. Low birth destroys glory, a beggar destroys dignity; Praise destroys good qualities, lack of self-control destroys the mind. Food is a fear to mantras, death is a fear to mortals; But for the excellent, humiliation is the greatest fear of all. The sun is hot because of its heat, there is no coolness around it; The moon's rays are cool, surrounded by stars; An analogy should be understood here, of the sun and the moon as kings. Lazy, slow-witted, happy, afflicted with disease; Sleepy, with increasing flesh, a glutton, a destroyer of families. Intoxication arises from negligence, decay arises from negligence; Faults increase from decay, why does a wise man not abandon intoxication? Whatever seed is sown, such fruit is obtained; One who does good receives good, and one who does evil receives evil. He who does not believe in the fruit of good and evil, Will quickly bring a mirror to a forest of reeds. Even if he is learned, he does not believe in the benefit of the next world; Why does he not see the frog going to the village from its dwelling? Faith Shame and fear of blame, great learning, non-sloth; Endowed with five and seventy qualities, he is considered wise. 389. The sun is the root, the moon the trunk, The solar rays the branches, the leaves; The Buddha is the flower, virtue the seed, And liberation is the fruit. 390. Books are like fields, Lines are like the yoke and plough; Making letters the seeds, The wise one lives and prospers. 391. Each single letter, Consider it equal to the form of the Buddha; Therefore, the wise person, Should write the Tipitaka. 392. He will not be reborn in a bad state, The one who makes the Tipitaka; Many times a wheel-turning, King, lord of the four continents. 393. A vast kingdom, Beyond calculation; Six heavens of sensual pleasure, He will be king many times. 394. Performing meritorious deeds such as giving, He is a sprout of enlightenment; Endowed with all good qualities, He will be revered in the three worlds. 395. In wealthy, rich, and abundant, Families, he is born in the best; Living in the best way, Is the reciter of the Tipitaka. 396. By the fruit of a single letter, The maker of the Tipitaka; Eighty-four thousand, Attains excellent happiness. 397. Even with little, the wise one, With skill and discernment; Raises himself, Like a spark kindling a fire. 398. Pain is the result of bad deeds, Pleasure is mixed with the mixed; All goes according to its kind, The fruit of actions should be known. 399. The instigator has four parts, The worker has two parts; The owner has an equal share, Approval has one part. 400. Better than endless talk is silence about self, Better than bad friends is solitude; Better than beautiful wives are the blind, Better than distant gains is the ease of breathing. 401. Even a low-caste person can be, Diligent, learned; Endowed with virtue and good conduct, He shines like a smokeless fire. 402. Not by birth is one an outcast, Not by birth is one a brahmin; By deeds is one an outcast, By deeds is one a brahmin. 403. The earth is like a veḷuka leaf, The world is like a suci fruit; Mount Sineru is like a small anthill, The ocean is like what is poured out. 404. With just one aeon, The mother's milk is not exhausted; From then on, even the ocean, Is exceedingly more abundant. 405. Brahmā is the mother and father, the first teacher, They are revered, Compassionate to the people, The sons of the Āhuneyya. 406. Therefore, a wise person should honor them, Should respect them, With food and drink, With clothing and bedding. 407. With unguents and bathing, And washing of the feet, Rising up to greet them, The wise person should attend to them. Here they praise him, And in the next world he rejoices. 408. With each single aeon, The accumulation of bones Of one person Would be equal to a mountain range, Thus was said by the great seer. 409. The gift of Dhamma conquers all gifts; The taste of Dhamma conquers all tastes; The delight in Dhamma conquers all delights; The destruction of craving conquers all suffering. 410. Be devoted to diligence, Protect your own mind; Lift yourselves out of suffering, Like an elephant sunk in the mud. 411. Abandon association with the wicked, Cultivate association with the good; Do merit day and night, Always remembering impermanence. 412. Impermanent, indeed, are conditioned things, Their nature is to arise and pass away; Having arisen, they cease, Their stilling is happiness. 413. For Dhamma and non-Dhamma, Do not have similar results; Non-Dhamma leads to hell, Dhamma leads to a good destination. 414. With the head level, And the feet level, And the space in between level, Keeping this in mind, One should write the three baskets.