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monk; in that case the weak will become disheartened like amimals burnt by fire.
9. Some who hate (the monks) revile them: "Those who lead such a miserable life (as monks do), atone but (for their sins in a former life)."
10. Some call them names, as (6 naked, lowest of beggars, baldhead, scabby, filthy, nasty."
11. Those who behave in this way and do not know better, go from darkness to utter darkness, being fools and shrouded in delusion.
12 When bitten by flies and gnats, and unable (to bear) the pricking of grass, (they will begin to doubt), "I have not seen the next world, all may end with death!"
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Some weak men who suffer from the plucking of hair, and who are unable to preserve their chastity, will become disheartened like fish transfixed by a spear 1.
14. Some low people who lead a life of iniquity, and entertain heretical opinions, being subject to love and hatred, injure a monk.
15. Some fools in outlying countries take a pious monk for a spy or a thief, bind him and insult him with angry words.
16. A weak monk being hurt with a stick or a fist or a fruit, remembers his (kind) relations, just as a woman who in a passion has left (her husband and house).
1. Ketana, perhaps caught with the hook.'
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