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BUNKACHULA (The benefits of vows and codes) The very next morning monsoon rains started. There was water all around and it was impossible for the ascetic to go ahead. He said to Bunkachula
Revered one! It is our good luck. You are
welcome to stay here. Please collect your If you allow, I would like
alms from our homes. But kindly do not to spend my monsoon
give discourses for four months. This is stay here.
because your discourses would make our people abandon stealing. That is our profession and without it how
will we survive ?
DOOD
The ascetic said - All right. But
you also make a promise that for four months you will neither
eat meat nor kill
living beings.
I accept your condition. For four months you stay here observing silence.
For four months we abandon meat eating
and killing beings.
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Getting this promise from Bunkachula, the ascetic decided to stay there for the monsoon period.
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