Verse 277

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In plain words

A mother says: My daughter is artless and innocent, a mere child; her many friends came and coaxed her and took her away, and to whom shall I tell the scheme they worked? They plunged her into the deep underground stream called the bearer of the discus and trapped her there; and she has not even the sense of the old saying, The ladle never tastes the salt.