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Dhammapada 242

Dhammapada 242

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Pāli

242

Malitthiyā duccaritaṃ,
maccheraṃ dadato malaṃ;
Malā ve pāpakā dhammā,
asmiṃ loke paramhi ca.

Bad conduct is the taint of woman, greediness the taint of a benefactor; tainted are all evil ways in this world and in the next.

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

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