ly attached to sensual pleasures, that they live infatuated with, greedy for, addicted to, fastened to, absorbed in sensual pleasures. Then, on realizing the significance of that, the Blessed One on that occasion exclaimed: Blinded by sensuality covered by the net, veiled with the veil of craving, bound by the Kinsman of the heedless,1 like fish in the mouth of a trap,2 they go to aging & death, like a milk-drinking calf to its mother. Notes 1. Mṅra. There is an alliterative play here between the word "bound" (bandhṅ) and "by the Kinsman" (bandhunṅ). 2. This verse, up to this point, is identical with a verse attributed to Ven. Rṅhula in Thag 4:8 (verse 297 in the PTS edition). - --> - - - -