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Dhammapada · Chapter 12: Self

Dhammapada 12.164

translated from Pāli by F. Max Müller, 1881

The foolish man who scorns the rule of the venerable (Arahat), of the elect (Ariya), of the virtuous, and follows false doctrine, he bears fruit to his own destruction, like the fruits of the Katthaka reed.

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