Manusmriti
पानमक्षाः स्त्रियश्चैव मृगया च यथाक्रमम् । एतत् कष्टतमं विद्यात्चतुष्कं कामजे गणे ॥ ५० ॥
Drinking, dice, women, and hunting, these four (which have been enumerated) in succession, he must know to be the most pernicious in the set that springs from love of pleasure.
english translation
pAnamakSAH striyazcaiva mRgayA ca yathAkramam । etat kaSTatamaM vidyAtcatuSkaM kAmaje gaNe ॥ 50 ॥
hk transliteration by Sanscriptपानमक्षाः स्त्रियश्चैव मृगया च यथाक्रमम् । एतत् कष्टतमं विद्यात्चतुष्कं कामजे गणे ॥ ५० ॥
Drinking, dice, women, and hunting, these four (which have been enumerated) in succession, he must know to be the most pernicious in the set that springs from love of pleasure.
english translation
pAnamakSAH striyazcaiva mRgayA ca yathAkramam । etat kaSTatamaM vidyAtcatuSkaM kAmaje gaNe ॥ 50 ॥
hk transliteration by Sanscript