The version of the Dhammapada in this book contains the same text as the English translation of the Dhammapada translated by Friedrich Max M ller and published in The Sacred Books of the East (which is in the public domain in the United States), except that this version has been changed to use American rather than British spelling (harbor rather than harbour, for example), changes "he" and "his" and "him" to "she" and "hers" and "her" as required...