Dhammapada verse 294
Chapter 21, Miscellaneous (Pakiṇṇakavagga) · verses 290–305
“Having slain mother and father, and two aristocratic kings, and having wiped out <j>the kingdom with its tax collector, the brahmin walks on untroubled.”
Mātaraṁ pitaraṁ hantvā, rājāno dve ca khattiye; Raṭṭhaṁ sānucaraṁ hantvā, anīgho yāti brāhmaṇo.
English by Bhikkhu Sujato (CC0, via SuttaCentral)
What does Dhammapada verse 294 mean?
Verse 294 belongs to chapter 21, Miscellaneous (Pakiṇṇakavagga), which gathers verses 290–305 on miscellaneous reflections. It is filed under no theme. Read it with the verses around it: the Dhammapada arranges chapters as short runs, not as isolated lines, so verse 293 and verse 295 are part of the same passage.
Sixteen verses of miscellany, which is what the title means. The chapter collects short reflections that did not sit under one of the other headings — on speech and silence, on the mind, on what a person should hold to — and its lack of a single subject is itself part of the book’s shape.