[360] 14.
"This two-footed (body) is borne about — impure, foul-smelling,
filled with all manner of carrion, oozing out here and there.
As one snares a lurking deer with a trap, a fish with a hook,
or a monkey with birdlime, so do they ensnare the worldling (puthujjana).
#1 Sī. reads "virahate rattiṃ"; M. and Yu. read "vijahate rattiṃ".
Forms, sounds, tastes, smells, and tangibles (phoṭṭhabba) that delight the mind —
these five cords of sensual pleasure (kāmaguṇa) are seen in a woman's form.
Those worldlings who, with minds (citta) inflamed by lust, consort with these (women)
swell the dreadful charnel ground and heap up renewed existence (punabbhava).
But whoever avoids these [1] (women), as one avoids a serpent's head with the foot,
he, mindful (sato), passes beyond this clinging (visattikā) in the world.
Having seen the danger (ādīnava) in sensual pleasures, having seen renunciation (nekkhamma) as security,
I have escaped from all sensual pleasures: the destruction of the taints (āsavakkhaya) has been attained by me."
Sabbakāma [2] the Elder.
Summary (uddāna):
Uruvelakassapa the Elder and Tikicchakāni [3],
Mahānāga and Kulla, Māluṅkya [4], Sappadāsaka,
Kātiyāna and [5] Migajāla, Jenta, and he who is called Sumana,
Nhātamuni, Brahmadatta, Sirimaṇḍa, Sabbakāmaka [2] —
the verses are eighty-four, and the elders herein fourteen.
The Chakkanipāta (Book of the Sixes) is concluded.
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#1 Yu. reads "yo etā". 2 M. reads "Sabbakāmī". 3 M. reads "thero Tekicchakāri"; Yu. reads "thero Te".
#4 M. reads "Mālukyo"; Sī. and Yu. read "Māluto". 5 In M. the word "ca" does not occur.
Theragāthā: The Sattakanipāta (Book of the Sevens)
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.