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Dhammapada 47

Dhammapada 47

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Pāli

47

Pupphāni heva pacinantaṃ,
byāsattamanasaṃ naraṃ;
Suttaṃ gāmaṃ mahoghova,
maccu ādāya gacchati.

Death carries off a man who is gathering flowers and whose mind is distracted, as a flood carries off a sleeping village.

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

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