Thag 1.101 — Belaṭṭhānika

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Thag 1:101 Belaṭṭhkāni

Abandoning the householder’s state,
but with no mastery,
lazy, gluttonous,
using his mouth as a plough
like a great hog fattened on fodder:
    Again & again
he goes to the womb—
    the dullard.