Dhammapada is one of the best known books of the Pitaka. It is a collection of

the teaching of the Buddha expressed in clear, purity verses. These verses were culled from various discourses given by the Buddha in the course of forty-five years of his teaching , as he travelled in the valley of the Ganges(Ganga) and the sub-mountain tract  of  the Himalayas. Whenever similes are used, they are those that are easily understood even by a child, e.g, the cart`s wheel, a man`s

shadow, a deep pool, flower