A marble inscription on the wall of the digicheṃ of Vaṃ Bāhāḥ recording teachings on nobility [c. 1982]
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Abstract
A marble inscription on the wall of the Digicheṃ of Vaṃ Bāhāḥ preserves a set of teachings intended to guide the conduct and virtues of the nobility.Diplomatic edition
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1उस्लेमलाइगालीगर्यो,मलाइपिट्योमलाई2हरायो,मेरोवस्तुलुटेरलियोभनेरमनमागाठो
3कस्दछ,उसकोवैरभावकहिल्यैपनिशान्तहुदैन।
4उत्तमधर्मलाईनजानेरसयवर्षबाच्नुभन्दा
5उत्तमधर्मलाईजानेरअभ्यासगरेरअकैदिन
6बाच्नुअसलहो।
7यदिथोरैसुखत्यागेरमहानसुखपाइनेहो
8भनेत्यसमहानसुखकोनिमित्तमसानासुख
9लाईत्याग्नुपर्दछ।
10मैत्रीलेक्रोधलाईजित्नुपर्दछ,दुर्व्यवहारगर्ने
11लाईसद्व्यवहारलेजित्नुपर्दछ,लोभीलाई
12केहीदिएरजित्नुपर्दछ,झूठबोल्नेलाई
13सत्यवचनलेजित्नुपर्दछ।
14आकासमा,समुन्द्रमा,पहाडकन्दरामाजहाँ
15गएपनीआफ्नोपापकर्मदुःखबाटबच्न
16सकिदैन।
Translation
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When a person holds that he was insulted, assaulted, defeated, or robbed, his anger continues to increase. The anger of such a person has no way of subsiding. The more he goes over his imaginary trouble, the greater becomes his desire to avenge it.
A single day’s life of a seer of the Noble Teaching of the Buddha is by far greater than the life of a hundred years of a person who does not see the Noblest Teaching.
By giving up the modicum of pleasure which the worldly pursuits bring, if one can be assured of tremendous pleasure—which is Nibbāna—the wise person should certainly give up the little pleasure.
Let anger be conquered by non-anger. Let bad ones be conquered by good. Let miserliness be overcome by charity. Let the liar be conquered by the truth.
There is no single spot on Earth an evil-doer can take shelter in to escape the results of his evil actions. No such place is seen out there in space or in the middle of the ocean. Neither in an opening, a cleft, nor a crevice in a rocky mountain can he take shelter to escape the results of his evil action.
Commentary
The edition and synopsis presented here are revised from the printed version published in Basukala et al. 2022: 193 (DOI: https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.1116). For documentation of this inscription and Vaṃ Bāhāḥ in the DANAM database, see https://danam.cats.uni-heidelberg.de/report/d2578f40-cfce-4450-a8c1-3092c08ef487.