[403] "Let no one of evil desires (pāpiccha) ever arise in the world;
and by this too may you know what the destination of those of evil desires is like.
Known as 'a wise man,' esteemed as 'one of developed self,'
Devadatta stood as if blazing with fame — so I have heard.
He, given over to heedlessness, having assailed the Tathāgata,
has reached the Avīci hell (niraya), four-gated, terrifying.
For whoever would plot against one uncorrupted, a person doing no evil deed,
that very evil touches him — the one of corrupted mind, devoid of respect.
Whoever should think to pollute the ocean with a pot of poison
could not pollute it thereby, for the great ocean is awesome.
Even so, whoever assails with abuse the Tathāgata —
attained to evenness (samagata), of peaceful mind — the abuse takes no root in him.
Of such a one the wise man should make a friend, and him he should associate with;
a bhikkhu following whose path attains the destruction of suffering (dukkha)."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.