Theragāthā 130

Verses of the Senior Monks 2.10

The Book of the Twos

Chapter One

Vasabha

1 First one kills oneself,

then one kills others.

One kills oneself, really dead,

like one who kills birds using a dead bird as a decoy.

2 A brahmin’s color is not on the outside;

a brahmin is colored on the inside.

Whoever harbors bad deeds

is truly a dark one, Sujampati.