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Dhammapada · 23.6

Middhī yadā hoti mahagghaso ca, niddāyitā samparivattasāyī;Mahāvarāhova nivāpapuṭṭho, punappunaṃ gabbhamupeti mando.

Middhi yada hoti mahagghaso ca, niddayita samparivattasayi; Mahavarahova nivapaputtho, punappunam gabbhamupeti mando.

When one is drowsy, a great eater, sleeping and rolling from side to side — like a great hog fattened on swill — that dull one is born again and again.

— Dhammapada 23.6

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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