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In plain words
Backbiters pour out their slander of someone else without restraint, and he takes it in with both ears. Does the man they were tearing down die of it? For nothing at all, the listener becomes a sharer in grievous sin.
Close to the Sanskrit
The slander of another, uttered to their heart's content by backbiters, he hears with both ears. By that, does the other die? Pointlessly the man becomes a sharer of grievous sin.