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# Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c17.144

Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v1.c17.144

- **Language:** English

### [v1.c17.144](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c17.144)

2. Chiggala Sutta.—It is more probable that a blind turtle, rising to the surface only once in a hundred years, should put his neck through a yoke (chiggala) with a single hole, floating about in the ocean, than that a fool who has gone to the Downfall should become a man again.¹

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