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Dhammapada 4.3.47

Dhammapadaṭṭhakathā 4.3.47

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Pāli

4.3.47

‘‘Pupphāni heva pacinantaṃ, byāsattamanasaṃ naraṃ;
Suttaṃ gāmaṃ mahoghova, maccu ādāya gacchatī’’ti.

47. Even while a man is gathering flowers and is absorbed in pleasure,
Death comes and carries him off, even as a mighty flood overwhelms a sleeping village.

Eugene Watson Burlingame 1921, Buddhist Legends (Harvard Oriental Series 28–30)

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