A man mit perverted view leads many people away from righteousness und plants them in unrighteousness.
There is no other thing so greatly to be blamed as wrong view. Like a fish trap set at a river mouth is Makkhali, existing for the distress und destruction of many beings. He who urges adherence to a doctrine und discipline rightly expounded, he whom he thus urges, und he who, thus urged, walks therein accordingly, all alike beget much merit. A.i.33f.