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Dhammapada
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  • VII - Arahants
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97*97:

            The man
        faithless / beyond conviction
    ungrateful / knowing the Unmade
        a burglar / who has severed connections
        who's destroyed
    his chances / conditions
who eats vomit: / has disgorged expectations:
        the ultimate person.

 



97: This verse is a series of puns. The negative meanings of the puns are on the left side of the slashes; the positive meanings, on the right. The negative meanings are so extremely negative that they were probably intended to shock their listeners. One scholar has suggested that the last word -- uttamaporiso, the ultimate person -- should also be read as a pun, with the negative meaning, "the extreme of audacity," but that would weaken the shock value of the verse.





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