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Stories of Past Lives 3 · The Book of the Ones

If you fail to achieve ^[1]

certainty regarding the true teaching

you’ll regret it for a long time,

like this wanton merchant. ^[2]

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[1] This verse is mostly the same as AN 8.29:15.1, which I believe is referring to the same story. The commentary tells of a fraudulent merchant who tried to trick a poor woman into thinking her gold vase was worthless.

[2] The commentary says his name was serivā, but this seems implausible, as it is supposed to be after the city of Seri, but that does not appear anywhere else, nor does it play a role in the story. Rather, read seri as “wanton”, for which see svairī in Chāndogya Upaniṣad 5.11.5. Serivā is the possessive form, “wanton one”.