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I, 63, 1. ADMISSION TO THE ORDER OF BHIKKHUS. 217
Bhikkhus said to him: 'How many years, friend, have elapsed since your upasa mpada ?'
What does that mean, friends, "years elapsed since the upasampada ?” *And who is your u pagghầya, friend ?' What does that word u pagg haya mean, friends?'
The Bhikkhus said to the venerable U pâli: 'Pray, friend Upáli, examine this ascetic.'
3. Then that person of an old family, whose kinsmen had died away, when being examined by the venerable Upâli, told him the whole matter. The venerable U pâli told this thing to the Bhikkhus; the Bhikkhus told this thing to the Blessed One.
'Let a person, O Bhikkhus, who has furtively attached himself to the Samgha, if he has not received the upasa mpadâ ordination, not receive it; if he has received it, let him be expelled (from the fraternity).
* Let a person, O Bhikkhus, who has gone over to the Titthiyas' (&c., as in chap. 61).
63. 1. At that time there was a serpent who was aggrieved at, ashamed of, and conceived aversion for his having been born as a serpent. Now this serpent thought: 'What am I to do in order to become released from being a serpent, and quickly to obtain human nature ?' Then this serpent gave himself the following answer : ‘These Sakyaputtiya Samanas lead indeed a virtuous, tranquil, holy life; they speak the truth; they keep the precepts of morality, and are endowed with all virtues. If
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