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live like a faithful wife and any person visiting her can be charged with adultery.
The third lecture of Abhaggasena teaches us that destroying the eggs of various birds and selling them publicly as well as devouring them is a great sin leading to the miseries of the galows and hells. By the by, it also gives us some information about the settlements of thieves in former times, and it also throws further light on the ancient mode of taking a person to the gallows by exposing him before the public, and to his great torture, relentlessly killing before his very eyes, his own near and distant relatives and mak. ing him eat their flesh and blood. This presupposes, very ancient days when the penal laws were yet rigid and barbarous and had not seen the dawn of modern civilization and reforms. A moral can also be drawn from the fact of Abhaggasena's death at the hands of king Mahabbala that intoxication due to wine and too much fondness for taste and food lead even an invincible man to ruin.
The fourth lecture of Sagada lays emphasis on the evil fruits of eating flesh and eventually on those of the heinous act of enjoying sexual pleasures with one's own sister. It has also been shown; as in the second lecture, that addiction to
