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(Pali), ascetics adhering to various systems of philosophy, 10 (ii), x, xiii; disputatious h. do not overcome Buddha, 10 (ii), 63; call each other fools, 10 (ii), 170; a Bhikkhu who had formerly belonged to a Titthiya school, goes back to it again, 13, 177, 186 sq.; probation time and ordination of h., 13, 186-91; Bhikkhu or Bhikkhunî who joins a sect of Titthiyas, cannot be received into the order again, 13, 186 sq.; 20, 366; enter upon Vassa under an earthenware vessel, 13, 319; Buddha rebukes Bhikkhus for taking upon themselves the vow of silence as h. do, 13, 328; the wickedness of h. in the last epoch of the world, 21, 259-61; to be avoided by Bodhisattvas, 21, 263, 265; how the Gaina should behave towards h., 22, 62 sq.; a monk or nun on a begging tour should avoid the company of h., 22, 90; not to be honoured, 25, 133, 133 n.; in a country which is subject to h., a Snâtaka shall not dwell, 25, 138; for h. no funeral libations are made, 25, 184, 184 n.; banished, 25, 381; the kings must maintain the rules settled among corporations of h. (such as Buddhist or Jain monks), 33, 153-5; he who has forsaken the order of religious ascetics, and he who has entered an order prohibited in law, are both contemptible, 33, 265; cannot be witnesses, 33, 303; Milinda mentions his dilemmas as being the expressions of h., 35, 145 sq., 153 sq., 199, 219; 36, 131; Samanas and Brahmans hold forth their various nostrums, 36, 366; philosophical doctrines of the h. mentioned by Gainas and Buddhists, 45, xxiii-xxvii; Gaina and Buddhist doctrines influenced by the teaching of h., 45, xxvii-xxix ; many people are h. and follow heretical teachers, 45, 43; a bad Sramana follows heretical teachers, 45, 79; practise the five wrong silas, 45, 80, 80 n.; attend the meeting of Kêsi and Gautama, 45, 121; are those who have chosen a wrong path, 45, 126; revilers of
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