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# Atri Smriti 3.3

Atrismṛti (Atrisaṃhitā) 3.3

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.upasmrti.atri.3.3)

yathā mahāhrade loṣṭaṃ kṣiptaṃ sarvaṃ vinaśyati  
evamātmakṛtaṃ pāpaṃ trayī dahati dehinaḥ

> Just as a lump of earth thrown into a great lake is completely dissolved, / so the threefold Veda burns the self-committed sin of an embodied soul.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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## Translations (1)

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