[231] "There is no task for the brahmin (brāhmaṇa),"
["Dāmali," said the Blessed One,]
"for the brahmin is one whose task is done (katakicca).
So long as he gains no foothold in the rivers,
a creature strains on with all his limbs;
but having gained a foothold, standing on dry land,
he strains no more, for he has gone beyond.
"This, Dāmali, is the simile for the brahmin —
for one whose taints (āsava) are destroyed, prudent, a meditator:
having reached the end of birth and death (jātimaraṇa),
he strains no more, for he has gone beyond."
The Kāmada Sutta, the Sixth.
[Siam Raṭṭha page apparatus: ¹ Sī. reads "dāmalo". ² Yu. reads "karaṇiyamettha". ³ Sī.: the reading "brāhmaṇassa natthi kiccassa" is also found. ⁴ Ma. reads "ti". A further note-marker follows "hoti"; its content lies beyond this excerpt.]
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.