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GRETIL input by John Richards 71

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Pāli

71

Na hi pāpaṃ kataṃ kammaṃ sajju-khīraṃ va muccati
Ḍahaṃ taṃ bālam anveti bhasma-cchanno va pāvako.

An evil deed, like newly-drawn milk, does not turn (suddenly); smouldering, like fire covered by ashes, it follows the fool.
[67. See Beal, l.c. p. 78.

Friedrich Max Müller 1881, The Dhammapada (Sacred Books of the East 10.1)

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