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that dharma indeed, by whose entanglement you are deluded, is hateful to me.","w":[["lokavidviṣṭam","hated by the world","",[["loka","world"],["vidviṣṭa","detested"]]],["ārabdhaṃ","undertaken, begun"],["tvadanyasyābhiṣecanam","the consecration of another than you","tvad-anyasya abhiṣecanam",[["tvat","you"],["anya","other"],["abhiṣecana","consecration"]]],["yeneyam","by which this","yena iyaṃ"],["āgatā","come, fallen"],["dvaidhaṃ","division, twofold state"],["tava","your"],["buddhir","mind, intellect","buddhiḥ"],["mahīpate","O lord of earth","",[["mahī","earth"],["pati","lord"]]],["sa","that","saḥ"],["hi","indeed"],["dharmo","dharma","dharmaḥ"],["mama","to me"],["dveṣyaḥ","hateful"],["prasaṅgād","through attachment, entanglement","prasaṅgāt"],["yasya","of which"],["muhyasi","you are deluded"]]},{"v":10,"ref":"2.020.010","lines":[{"p":"a","t":"yady api pratipattis te daivī cāpi tayor matam","q":null},{"p":"c","t":"tathāpy upekṣaṇīyaṃ te na me tad api rocate","q":null}],"tr":"Even if your 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