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Pierced by the dart of craving, always smoking with desires. 449. “The world is struck by death, and encompassed by old age; It is constantly afflicted, helpless, like a thief who has received a beating. 450. “Like approaching masses of fire, death, sickness, old age—these three; There is no strength to meet them, no speed to flee. 451. “One should make the day fruitful, with little or much; Whatever night passes, that much less is one’s life. 452. “Whether walking or standing, sitting or lying down; The last night approaches, it is not time for you to be heedless.” …Sirimaṇḍa the Elder…. 14. Sabbakāmi the Elder’s Verses 453. “This two-footed one, impure, foul-smelling, is carried about; Full of various corpses, leaking from here and there. 454. “Like a deer hidden by a snare, like a fish by a hook; Like a monkey by birdlime , they torment the ordinary person. 455. Forms, sounds, tastes, smells, And delightful tangibles; These five strands of sensual pleasure, Are seen in the female form. 456. Those ordinary people, Whose minds are attached, indulge in these; They increase the dreadful charnel ground, They accumulate renewed existence. 457. And whoever avoids these, As one avoids a snake's head with one's foot; He, mindful, Overcomes this entanglement in the world. 458. Having seen the danger in sensual pleasures, Having perceived renunciation as safety; Freed from all sensual pleasures, My destruction of defilements is attained. … Elder Sabbakāmi…. The Chapter of Sixes is finished. Therein is the summary: Uruvelakassapa and, Elder Tekicchakāri and; Mahānāga and Kulla and, Mālukya, Sappadāsaka. Kātyāno, Migajālo, Jento, Sumanasavhayo; Nhātamuni, Brahmadatta, Sirimaṇḍo, and Sabbakāmī; Eighty-four verses, And fourteen elders here.