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Dhammapada · 9.12

Na antalikkhe na samuddamajjhe, na pabbatānaṃ vivaraṃ pavissa;Na vijjati so jagatippadeso, yatthaṭṭhito mucceyya pāpakammā.

Na antalikkhe na samuddamajjhe, na pabbatanam vivaram pavissa; Na vijjati so jagatippadeso, yatthatthito mucceyya papakamma.

Not in the sky, nor in the middle of the ocean, nor entering a cleft of the mountains — there is no place in the world where one might escape one's evil deed.

— Dhammapada 9.12

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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