FORTUNES‐DHAMMAPADA(6)

🦋 fortunes-dhammapada 🦋

okay bestie, so this is a page from the fortunes-dhammapada manual (section 6, games, iykyk) and honestly? it's giving ancient wisdom meets your terminal. no cap, we're about to make fortune spit out Buddhist verses and it's lowkey iconic. 💖

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✨ NAME ✨

fortunes‐dhammapada — that's the whole name, that's the vibe, periodt. 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

fortune [TRANSLATION]

Displays a verse from the Dhammapada using fortune 🎀

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

So like… the Dhammapada is an anthology of 423 verses from the Kuddaka Nikaya part of the Theravada Pali Canon. It's absolutely full of Buddhist ethical and spiritual precepts, and it's the moment, fr fr. 📜✨

Translations available: 2 English translations (by John Richard or F. Max Muller), German, or Polish. pick your fighter bestie 🌈

NOTE: Verses may contain 1 or more numbers or numbered paragraphs. not me warning you but also yes i am 🫶

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🎀 TRANSLATIONS 🎀

• dhammapada — English - John Richard's Translation. 👑
• dhammapada.m — English - F. Max Muller's Translation. ✨
• dhammapada.de — German Translation. 🍓
• dhammapada.pl — Polish Translation. 🦋

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🔥 EXAMPLES 🔥

• fortune dhammapada : Displays a random verse from Richard's translation.
• fortune dhammapada.m : Displays a random verse from Muller's translation.
• fortune dhammapada.de : Displays a random verse from German translation.
• fortune dhammapada.pl : Displays a random verse from Polish translation.

like okay, just pick one and go, it's literally that easy 💅

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🧚 FILES 🧚

• /usr/share/games/fortunes/dhammapada
• /usr/share/games/fortunes/dhammapada.m
• /usr/share/games/fortunes/dhammapada.pl
• /usr/share/games/fortunes/dhammapada.de

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💀 BUGS 💀

Found a bug?? 😭 please report bugs on : https://gitlab.com/bodhi.zazem/display‐dhammapada

we're not mad, we're just disappointed (jk, we wanna fix it, tell us everything) 🙈

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

fortune-mod 👀

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💖 AUTHORS 💖

display-dhammapada was originally written by Richard Cepas <rch@online.lt> and later modified by bodhi.zazen to be compatible with fortune. obsessed with them honestly. 🫶

Copyright GPL v3 ⭐

Home Page: https://gitlab.com/bodhizazen.net/display‐dhammapada

Richards' English translation of the Dhammapada: Copyright (C) 1993 John Richards, Pembrokeshire (UK), permission granted for use here. See http://eawc.evansville.edu/anthology/dhammapada.htm

Muller's translation of the Dhammapada: Public Domain, used here courtesy of Project Gutenberg.

Polish translation (by Zbigniew Becker): Public Domain, as explained at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain See also http://mahajana.net/dhammapada/

German translation (by http://www.zeno.org - Contumax GmbH & Co. KG): Public Domain (Gemeinfrei, as explained at http://www.zeno.org/Zeno/-/Lizenz%3A+Gemeinfrei

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aaaand that's the whole page bestie!! version 1.0, dated January 2026 — go forth and let fortune bless your terminal with 423 verses of pure main character energy. mwah 💋✨🦋