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Dhammapada 311

Dhammapada 311

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Pāli

311

Kuso yathā duggahito,
hatthamevānukantati;
Sāmaññaṃ dupparāmaṭṭhaṃ,
nirayāyupakaḍḍhati.

As a grass-blade, if badly grasped, cuts the arm, badly-practised asceticism leads to hell.

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

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