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# Akusalamulasutta 2.3

Akusalamūlasutta 2.3

- **Language:** Pāli

### [2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.anguttara.3.69.2.3)

yadapi luddho lobhena abhibhūto pariyādinnacitto parassa asatā dukkhaṃ uppādayati vadhena vā bandhanena vā jāniyā vā garahāya vā pabbājanāya vā balavamhi balattho itipi tadapi akusalaṃ.

> When a greedy person, overcome by greed, causes another to suffer under a false pretext—by execution or imprisonment or confiscation or condemnation or banishment—thinking ‘I’m powerful, I want power’, that too is unskillful.  
> — Unskillful Roots

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## Translations (5)

- [Les racines de ce qui est désavantageux](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.anguttara.3.69~fr-sekha.2.3) — French
- [69. Raízes prejudiciais](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.anguttara.3.69~pt-laera-quaresma.2.3) — Portuguese
- [Unskillful Roots](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.anguttara.3.69~en-sujato.2.3) — English
- [Wurzeln des Untauglichen](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.anguttara.3.69~de-sabbamitta.2.3) — German
- [Неблагие корни](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.anguttara.3.69~ru-sv.2.3) — Russian

## Linked texts (1)

- [七處三觀經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.agama.ekottara.saptasthanatrividhopapariksasutra*zh-an-shigao.1.236) — Classical Chinese

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