Sinful persons hide themselves under the guise of virtue, even as the wells remain undiscovered on account of the grasses growing over and covering them. The selfcontrol, which they seem to possess, their holiness, their speeches regarding virtue, all these are witnessed in them. But good behaviours are hardly found in them.
अधर्मा धर्मरूपेण तृणैः कूपा इवावृताः। तेषां दमः पवित्राणि प्रलापा धर्मसंश्रिताः। सर्वं हि विद्यते तेषु शिष्टाचारः सुदुर्लभः॥