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and have left off adorning themselves, are well established in control, because they have renounced everything. (17)
As merchants go over the sea, so they will cross the flood (of Samsara), where living beings despond and suffer pains because of their own deeds. (18)
A monk who knows this, will live as a virtuous man guarded by the Samitis; he will abstain from untrue speech, and not take what is not freely given him. (19)
He should cease to injure living beings whether they move or not, on high, below, and on earth. For this has been called the Nirvana, which consists in peace . (20)
21, 22 = 1, 3, 3, 20 and 21. Thus I say.
FOURTH LECTURE ?,
CALLED
KNOWLEDGE OF WOMEN.
FIRST CHAPTER. A monk who has left his mother and father and all worldly ties, (determines) to walk about alone and wise, to abstain from sexual pleasures, and to ask for a secluded place (where to lodge). (1)
i See below, I, II, II.
2 This whole adhyayana is composed in the archaic form of Arya, of which I have treated at length in the thirty-eighth volume of the Journal of the German Oriental Society, p. 594. The same metre occurs also in the Suttanipata of the Buddhists (ed. Fausböll, 26 f., 170 ff.), a fact which I was not aware of when I wrote the paper just referred to.
