Better is an intelligent foe“Seyyo amitto medhāvī,than a foolish sympathizer.Yañce bālānukampako;See that wretched Rohinī,Passa rohiṇikaṁ jammiṁ,grieving after killing her mother.Mātaraṁ hantvāna socatī”ti.
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