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codified. Henceforth one became known as pāli and the other as ardha -māgadhi. Since the two have been written different times, that may to some extent account for their linguistic difference. The words of the Buddha have also been called pāli(21). It is, therefore, very likely that the language in which the Buddhist texts have been written has been called by the same name. For the rest, in literary style and expression, the two texts, Nisiha and Vinaya Pitaka, come so near to one another. The following, quoted from the two texts, will illustrate:
1. A monk who thinks that he has got a new pot, and so thinking, who rubs it with oil, ghee, butter and grease, once, and then often, repeatedly, and approves others doing the same, such a monk has to undergo light atonement for four months.
A monk who thinks that he has got a new pot, and so thinking uses various dye powers like lodraka, koştaka, padma, etc., paint them, and approves other monks doing the same, such a monk has to undergo light atonement for four months.
A monk who thinks that he has got a new pot, and so thinking he washes it with live cold water, live hot water, washes again and again, and approves other monks doing the same, such a monk has to undergo light atonement for four months (22).
2. A monk who accepts gold and silver, asks another to accept it, and makes use of the same gold or silver, such a monk has to undergo nissaggiya pāticiya.
A monk who uses diverse coins has to undergo Nissaggiya päticiya (23).
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ic prescription, a monk is permitted to read the Nisiha at least three years after his initiation. Besides, Nisiha and other Cheda Sutras are for the private use of the monks, and are not to be read in public, nor to be read by any householder for any spiritual purpose. As to the Vinaya Pitaka, there is a similar
