Nirayavagga ⧸ Gāthā 311
Kuso yathā duggahito hatthamevānukantati
Sāmaññaṃ dupparāmaṭṭhaṃ nirayāyupakaḍḍhati
Sāmaññaṃ dupparāmaṭṭhaṃ nirayāyupakaḍḍhati
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The Downward Course ⧸ Verse 311
As a grass-blade, if badly grasped, cuts the arm, badly-practised asceticism leads to hell.
English translation by Max Müller, from The Sacred Books of the East (1881).
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