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# Shatakatraya 3.11

Śatakatraya 3.11

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [3.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.satakatraya.3.11)

na saṃsārotpannaṃ caritam anupaśyāmi kuśalaṃ  
vipākaḥ puṇyānāṃ janayati bhayaṃ me vimṛśataḥ |  
mahadbhiḥ puṇyaughaiś cira-parigṛhītāś ca viṣayā  
mahānto jāyante vyasanam iva dātuṃ viṣayiṇām ||

> I see no good outcome born of this cycle of worldly existence;  
> when I reflect on it, the ripening of merits causes me dread.  
> For sense objects, enjoyed for a long time through great floods of merit,  
> turn out only to bring ruin, as it were, upon the pleasure-seeker.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.satakatraya~en-mt.3.11) — English, machine translation

## Linked texts (2)

- [Rasakalpadruma (Jagannātha Miśra)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.alamkara.rasa.rasakalpadruma-jagannathamisra.38.20) — Jagannātha Miśra 1600, Sanskrit
- [Bhartṛhariśataka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.muktaka.bhartrharisataka.14.11) — Bhartṛhari (grammarian), Sanskrit

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