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TEVIGGA SUTTA.
CHAPTER II.
• THE SHORT PARAGRAPHS ON CONDUCT.
THE KOLA SÍLAM”.
1. "Now wherein, Vâsettha, is his conduct good ?'
Herein, O Vâsettha, that putting away the murder of that which lives, he abstains from destroying life. The cudgel and the sword he lays aside; and, full of modesty and pity, he is compassionate and kind to all creatures that have life!
This is the kind of goodness that he has. 2. 'Putting away the theft of that which is not his, he abstains from taking anything not given. He takes only what is given, therewith is he content, and he passes his life in honesty and in purity of heart!
*This, too, is the kind of goodness that he has.
3. Putting away inchastity, he lives a life of chastity and purity, averse to the low habit of sexual intercourse.
*This, too, (&c., see S II, 2.) 2
1 There is no division into actual chapters in the original, but it is convenient to arrange the following enumeration of moral precepts separately, as they occur in various suttas in the same order ; and are always divided into the three divisions of Lower, Medium, and Higher Morality.
9 The clause 'this, too, is the kind of goodness that he has' is repeated in the text after each section. The clause, which differs
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