About Parable of the Poisoned Arrow

The parable of the arrow is a Buddhist parable that illustrates the skeptic and pragmatic themes of the Cūḷamālukya Sutta which is part of the middle length discourses, one of the five sections of the Sutta Pitaka. The Pāli text contains a number of hapax legomena or otherwise obscure archery terms and these are generally poorly dealt with in English translations.