Dhammapada · Verset 162

Devadattavatthu

Pali

Yassa accantadussilyaṁ,
māluvā sālamivotthataṁ;
Karoti so tathattānaṁ,
yathā naṁ icchatī diso.

English

One choked by immorality,
as a sal tree by a creeper,
does to themselves
what a foe only wishes.

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