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वाग्दुष्टात् तस्कराच् च-एव दण्डेन-एव च हिंसतः) । साहसस्य नरः कर्ता विज्ञेयः) पापकृत्तमः ॥
vāgduṣṭāt taskarāc ca-eva daṇḍena-eva ca hiṃsataḥ) | sāhasasya naraḥ kartā vijñeyaḥ) pāpakṛttamaḥ ||
Devanagari rendered by HREEM from the edition's roman (IAST) text; the IAST is the edition's own.
He who commits violence must be considered as the worst offender, (more wicked) than a defamer, than a thief, and than he who injures (another) with a staff.
Translated by Georg BühlerFrom an unproofread scan of the printed edition; spelling and line breaks may carry OCR errors.