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Refer The Vinaya Texts (Sacred Book of the East Series Vol. XIII), ed. by T.W. Rhys Davids and H. Oldenberg; pt. 1; Indian
reprint 1968; p. 178. 23. Vide; Das, S.K.; The Educational System of the Ancient Hindus,
Calcutta, 1930, p. 157. 24. The Mahāvagga I. 32. 8, note 1 on page 179 by Rhys Davids and
H. Oldenberg. 25. Ibid; p. 179. 26. Cf; “In consequence of that and on this occasion the Blessed
One, after having delivered a religious discourse, thus addressed the Bhikkbus : 'I prescribe, O Bhikkhus, that a learned, competent Bhikkhu lives five years in dependence (on his ācārya and
Upadhyāya), an unlearned one all his life". Ibid; p. 207. 27. Ibid; p. 179.
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