[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Dictionary of Pali Proper Names](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937) › v1.c6.3040 # Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v1.c6.3040 Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names v1.c6.3040 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c6.3040](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c6.3040) Foolish persons, who have learned the Doctrine by heart but fail to study its import, quite miss the real meaning of their memorising and find no joy in it, using it solely as a means of stricture on others or of bandying verbal quotations; they are like a man who, finding a serpent, seizes it by its tail or coils and gets bitten, meeting thereby death or deadly hurt. But those, who comprehend all that the Doctrine embodies, resemble a man who pins a serpent securely down with a forked stick and grasps it firmly by its neck. - [Previous: v1.c6.3039](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c6.3039) - [Next: v1.c6.3041](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c6.3041) - [Up: v1.c6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c6) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c6.3040](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.malalasekera-1937.v1.c6.3040) · Pramāṇa