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manujassa pramattacāriṇo tahnā vaddhati mālutā iva |
sā prāplavate hurāhuraṃ phalameṣī va vanamhi vānnaro ||

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For a man living heedlessly, craving grows like a creeper;
he leaps from life to life, like a monkey in the forest seeking fruit.