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IJI, 3.
HERMITS IN THE WOOD.
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to time, that is the mode of subsistence called) Siloñkhâ (gleaning).
15. As to the livelihood called) Kapotâ, (if) he picks up with two fingers single grains in permitted places, where (grain-bearing) plants grow, either on the road or in fields the access to which is not obstructed, that is called), because he acts like a pigeon, Kapota (pigeon-life).
16. As to the mode of life called) Siddhoñkhâ, (if) tired with the (other) ways of subsistence, he asks, because he has become old or diseased, virtuous men for cooked food, that is the livelihood called) Siddhoñkha (gleaning cooked food).
17. If (he adopts) the latter, he must reposit (the sacred fires) in his soul and behave like an ascetic, except in using) the cloth for straining water and (wearing) a reddish-brown dress.
18. If he subsists on the produce of the forest, (the fruits) of trees, creepers, and lianas, and of grasses, such as wild millet (syâmâka) and wild sesamum, that is called) forest-life.
19. Now they quote also the following verse): Moving about with the beasts, dwelling together with them, and maintaining oneself in a manner similar to theirs, that is clearly the road to heaven.'
Prasna III, ADHYAYA 3. 1. Now the hermits in the wood belong to two classes,
15. Govinda mentions a varia lectio not found in our MSS., kapotavatsamdamsinî, because he pecks like a pigeon.
16. Here as well as above, III, 1, 7, the Dekhan MSS. read siddhekkha, begging cooked food,' instead of siddhonkha.
3. 1. Compare for the whole Adhyâya, Apastamba II, 9, 21, 20-23, 2.
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| SR No. | 007674 |
| Book Title | Dhammapada |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Max Muller |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1881 |
| Total Pages | 2540 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 45 MB |