Saṁyutta Nikāya — The Connected Discourses

SN1: Connected Discourses with Devatas

SN1:73 Treasure

1v.227 "What here is a man's best treasure?
What practised well brings happiness?
What is really the sweetest of tastes?
How lives the one whom they say lives best?"

2v.228 "Faith is here a man's best treasure;
Dhamma practised well brings happiness;
Truth is really the sweetest of tastes;
One living by wisdom they say lives best." [n.130] SS record a v.l. sadhutaraṁin pāda c, but Spk's gloss madhutaraṁ indicates that the reading available to the commentator here was sadutaraṁ. However, Spk recognizes the same v.l. in connection with the identical vv. 846–47. See n. 597.
Spk: A householder who lives by wisdom (paññajivi) is one who becomes established in the Five Precepts and offers regular almsfood, etc.; one gone forth who lives by wisdom uses his requisites with proper reflection, takes up a meditation subject, sets up insight, and attains the noble paths and fruits.

1"Kiṁsūdha vittaṁ purisassa seṭṭhaṁ,
Kiṁsu suciṇṇo sukhamāvahati;
Kiṁsu have sādutaraṁ rasānaṁ,
Kathaṁjīviṁ jīvitamāhu seṭṭhan"ti.

2"Saddhīdha vittaṁ purisassa seṭṭhaṁ,
Dhammo suciṇṇo sukhamāvahati;
Saccaṁ have sādutaraṁ rasānaṁ,
Paññājīviṁ jīvitamāhu seṭṭhan"ti.

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