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# Suktimuktavali 57

English (machine translation) 57

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### [57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.kosa.suktimuktavali~en-mt.57)

Now the section on greed. / They roam the trackless forest, traverse vast foreign lands, / plunge into the deep ocean, undertake agriculture fraught with great hardship, / serve a wretched master, and charge into battle / rendered impassable by colliding troops of elephants—all that is the outburst of greed in minds blinded by wealth. (57)

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