[1. Suro yatha ragakhadaya puttho
Abhigaggam eti patisuram ikkham--
Yen' eva so tena palehi sura,
Pubbe va n' atthi yad idam yudhaya.

2. Patisenikatta ti patilomakarako. Commentator.

3. Atha tvam pavitakkam agama
Manasa ditthigatani kintayanto,
Dhonena yugam samagama,
Na hi tvam pagghasi sampayatave.]

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(in me) for sexual intercourse. What is this (thy daughter's body but a thing) full of water and excrement? I do not even want to touch it with my foot.' (835)

2. Magandiya: 'If thou dost not want such a pearl, a woman desired by many kings, what view, virtue, and (holy) works, (mode of) life, re-birth dost thou profess?' (836)

3. '"This I say," so (I do now declare), after investigation there is nothing amongst the doctrines which such a one (as I would) embrace, O Magandiya,'-- so said Bhagavat,--'and seeing (misery) in the (philosophical) views, without adopting (any of them), searching (for truth) I saw "inward peace[1]."' (837)

4. 'All the (philosophical) resolutions[2] that have been formed,'--so said Magandiya,--'those indeed thou explainest without adopting (any of them); the notion "inward peace" which (thou mentionest), how is this explained by the wise?' (838)

5. 'Not by (any philosophical) opinion, not by tradition, not by knowledge, O Magandiya,'--so said Bhagavat,--'not by virtue and (holy) works can any one say that purity exists; nor by absence of (philosophical) opinion, by absence of tradition, by absence of knowledge, by absence of virtue and (holy) works either; having abandoned these without adopting (anything else), let him, calm and independent, not desire existence[3]. (839)

[1. Idam vadamiti na tassa hoti--Magandiya ti Bhagava--
Dhammesu nikkheyya samuggahitam
Passan ka ditthisu anuggahaya
Agghattasantim pakinam adassam.

2. Vinikkhaya, placita?

3. Na ditthiya na sutiya na nanena--Magandiya ti Bhagava--
Silabbatenapi na suddhim aha
Aditthiya assutiya anana
Asilata abbata no pi tena,
Ete ka nissagga anuggahaya
Santo anissaya bhavam na gappe.]

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6. 'If one cannot say by (any philosophical) opinion, or by tradition, or by knowledge,'--so said Magandiya,--'or by virtue and (holy) works that purity exists, nor by absence of (philosophical) opinion, by absence of tradition, by absence of knowledge, by absence of virtue and (holy) works, then I consider the doctrine foolish, for by (philosophical) opinions some return to purity.' (840)