DHAMMAPADA 
I47 
 
Yet little is this fragrance found of Taggara and Sandal 
wood : 
Mounts to the Gods, the highest, the scent of those whose 
deeds are right and good. 
 
Perfect in virtue, living lives of Earnestness, Right Know-
ledge hath 
Brought into liberty their minds, that Mara findeth not their 
path. 
 
As on a heap of rubbish thrown by the wayside the Lotus 
flower 
Will bloom sweet scented, delicate and excellent to think 
upon. 
 
So ’mid the slothful worthless ones, the Walkers in 
Delusion’s power, 
In glory of Wisdom, light of Buddha forth hath the True 
Disciple shone. 
 
Desunt cetera. 
 
[The reader will kindly note such important changes of 
metre as occur in the two last verses of Chapter I. and 
elsewhere.  The careless might suppose that these do not 
scan ; they do, following directly or by analogy a similar 
change in the Pali.—R. P. L.]