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# Suktimuktavali 49

English (machine translation) 49

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### [49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.kosa.suktimuktavali~en-mt.49)

Now the section on pride:  
From which arises the expanse of impassable rivers of calamity, / in which not even the name of the assemblage of virtues favored by the wise exists, / and which, through the smoke of intent to kill, bears the forest fire of anger: / abandon that mountain of pride, difficult to ascend, for the practice of propriety. (49)

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