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BRÂHMANADHAMMIKASUTTA.
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3. A Bhikkhu who delights in quarrelling and is shrouded in folly, does not understand the Dhamma that is preached and taught by Buddha. (275)
4. Injuring his own cultivated mind, and led by ignorance, he does not understand that sin is the way leading to hell.
(276) 5. Having gone to calamity, from womb to womb, from darkness to darkness, such a Bhikkhu verily, after passing away, goes to pain.
(277) 6. As when there is a pit of excrement (that has become) full during a number of years,-he who should be such a one full of sin is difficult to purify. (278)
7. Whom you know to be such a one, O Bhikkhus, (a man) dependent on a house, having sinful desires, sinful thoughts, and being with sinful deeds and objects,
(279) 8. Him do avoid, being all in concord; blow him away as sweepings, put him away as rubbish. (280)
9. Then remove as chaff those that are no Samanas, (but only) think themselves, blowing away those that have sinful desires and those with sinful deeds and objects.
(281) 10. Be pure and live together with the pure, being thoughtful; then agreeing (and) wise you will put an end to pain.
(282) Dhammakariyasutta is ended.
7. BRAHMANADHAMMIKASUTTA.
Wealthy Brâhmanas come to Buddha, asking about the customs of
the ancient Brâhmanas. Buddha describes their mode of life and the change wrought in them by seeing the king's riches, and furthermore, how they induced the king to commit the sin of
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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 |