The Dhammapada (Sacred Books of the East, vol. 10, part 1)

This is Friedrich Max Muller's English translation of the Dhammapada, a core early Buddhist text of verses attributed to the Buddha, published in the Sacred Books of the East series through Clarendon Press, one of the first major systematic attempts to bring Asian religious texts to English readers through rigorous philological translation. Muller was a serious Sanskritist of the era, and the translation opened this text to English readers at real scale for the first time. Its limit is its age, dating from 1881, so later translators working with more developed Pali scholarship have refined some of Muller's readings, and specific difficult verses are best cross checked against a modern translation where precision on wording matters, even though the underlying text remains the same.