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Mahabharata 5.40.7

आशा धृतिं हन्ति समृद्धिमन्तकः; क्रोधः श्रियं हन्ति यशः कदर्यताअपालनं हन्ति पशूंश्च राज;न्नेकः क्रुद्धो ब्राह्मणो हन्ति राष्ट्रम्

āśā dhṛtiṃ hanti samṛddhimantakaḥ; krodhaḥ śriyaṃ hanti yaśaḥ kadaryatāapālanaṃ hanti paśūṃśca rāja;nnekaḥ kruddho brāhmaṇo hanti rāṣṭram

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.