Quotation by Hla Stavhana

As if he were
a pot of dates
in a blind man's hand,
Mothers,
they pilfer my husband
and they're jealous of me!
The cobra's hood
has come out of its tail.
Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.), South Indian king, Prkrit poet. translated from The Gthsaptaat of Stavhana Hla by Martha Ann Selby, vs. 240, Nirnaya Sgara Press (1889).
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