Then, again, virtue often proves a mark for covering sin, like grass and straw covering the mouth of a deep pit and concealing it from the view. Hear, again, O Yudhishthira. On account of this, the practices of the good are interfered with and destroyed by the wicked.
अधर्मो धर्मरूपेण तृणैः कूप इवावृतः। ततस्तैर्भिद्यते वृत्तं शृणु चैव युधिष्ठिर॥