Verse 78

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In plain words

Sound alone kills the deer, touch alone the elephant, sight alone the moth, taste alone the fish, smell alone the bee — each undone by a single sense it couldn't resist. What hope, then, for a man gripped by all five at once?

Close to the Sanskrit

By the five, beginning with sound, the five creatures, bound by their own single quality, met death. The deer, elephant, moth, fish, and bee — what then of a man seized by all five?