[63] "Given to anger and ungrateful, slanderous and sowers of division⁴ [are women].
Live the holy life (brahmacariya), bhikkhu; then you will not lose happiness."⁵
The Takka Jātaka, the third.
4. The Durājāna Jātaka
[Variant readings in the Siam Raṭṭha apparatus:]
#1 Burmese ed.: asā. 2 Burmese ed.: samukhaveṭhito. (Notes 1–2 anchor to text preceding this excerpt.) 3 Burmese ed.: Takkapaṇḍitajātakaṃ ("Takkapaṇḍita Jātaka"). 4 Burmese ed.: pisuṇā
#mittabhedikā ("slanderous, breakers of friendship"). 5 Burmese ed.: vihāhasī ti.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.