[8] Life is swept onward, its span so brief;⁶
for one carried on by aging there are no shelters.
Seeing this peril in death,
one who looks for peace should abandon the world's bait (lokāmisa).
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¹ In the Sāratthappakāsinī commentary and in the Burmese books the reading "vedanānirodhā" appears.
² Sinhalese edition: "vimokkhaṃ." ³ Only in the Sinhalese books does the introductory (nidāna) formula occur in every sutta;
in the European and Burmese books, however, it is absent. ⁴–⁶ Burmese and European editions: "jīvitamappamāyu."
⁵ In the Sinhalese edition the word "iti" does not appear.
The Accenti Sutta, the fourth.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.