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10 wise man! The conquerors have said that wine, Hesh and onions should not be eaten by any Buddhist or great Buddhist. '1. '
. . .. A monk should always abstain from flesh, onion, many kinds of intoxicating 'liquors, garlic, and turnip. 5.
He, who kills any creature for money and he, who pays money for it-both of them are evil-doers and shall fall in the Rourava etc., hells. 9.
I have prohibited flesh in the following scriptures (1) Hasti kaksya, (2) Mahâ" megha, (3) Nirvânânguli mâlika (4) and Lankâvatârasutra. 16.
Just as attachment is obstructive to liberation, so is Hesh, wine etc. obstructive to nirvana. 20.
Therefore Hesh, which is fearful to the creatures and is contrary to the conduct for liberation, should not be eaten. This is the flag of the Arya people. 24.
Note. This Lankayatâra sûtra is also very old. It appears to me that when the Pali sutras were at first compiled in Ceylon in the first century. A. D. and flesheating was supported therein through any argument then this sutra appears to have been written in answer to that. This Lankavatâra sutra explicitly prohibits any Buddhist from taking any flesh. The saying of those persons who declare that they do not themselves kill the creatures, they only buy flesh from the market and so they are not guilty of any injury is contradicted in this sutra. When they pay money in change of flesh,
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