Among all the discourses in the Sutta Nipata, few sound as unnervingly current as the Attadandasutta—“Taking Up Arms.” It belongs to the Atthakavagga, one of the oldest strata of the Pali Canon, and it speaks without ornament to a world torn by conflict, fear, and aggression. Though spoken twenty-five centuries ago, its cadence echoes into our own age of war, division, propaganda, and the weary feeling that the world is becoming harder to hold steady.