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Dhammapada · 1.9

Anikkasāvo kāsāvaṃ, yo vatthaṃ paridahissati;Apeto damasaccena, na so kāsāvamarahati.

Anikkasavo kasavam, yo vattham paridahissati; Apeto damasaccena, na so kasavamarahati.

Whoever, while still impure, lacking self-restraint and truthfulness, would put on the ochre robe — that person does not deserve the robe.

— Dhammapada 1.9

Source: Pali text from the Khuddaka Nikāya of the Pali Canon (oldest extant Buddhist scripture, compiled c. 3rd century BCE). Public-domain English readings drawn from F. Max Müller's translation in Sacred Books of the East, Vol X (1881) and the Buddhist Publication Society's freely-licensed Acharya Buddharakkhita rendering.

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