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Mahabharata 12.275.12

मूढस्य दर्पः स पुनर्मोह एव; मूढस्य नायं न परोऽस्ति लोकःन ह्येव दुःखानि सदा भवन्ति; सुखस्य वा नित्यशो लाभ एव

mūḍhasya darpaḥ sa punarmoha eva; mūḍhasya nāyaṃ na paro'sti lokaḥna hyeva duḥkhāni sadā bhavanti; sukhasya vā nityaśo lābha eva

Our plain-language meaning of this verse is waiting for scholar review.

Edition: Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute Critical Edition, parva.adhyaya.shloka.

Transliteration in IAST, generated from the Devanagari text.

Source: Contains information from DharmicData (github.com/bhavykhatri/DharmicData), made available under the ODbL v1.0. Sanskrit text public domain; dataset ODbL v1.0.

Mahabharata 12.275.12 · Vidya