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BOOK 2, LECTURE 7.
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Ârdraka. "If every year you kill but one animal without abstaining from sin, though you are not guilty of the slaughter of other creatures, there is little difference between you and a householder. (53)
"If a man kills every year but one animal, and lives (in other respects) as a Sramana, he is unworthy, and works his perdition. Such men will not become Kêvalins.” (54)
A (monk) who has achieved his religious perfection through the instruction of the Awakened One ?, and stands firm in it, who guards himself in the threefold way (i. e. with regard to thoughts, words, and acts), and who possesses the things requisite for crossing the immense ocean of existence, may preach the Law. (55)
Thus I say.
SEVENTH LECTURE,
CALLED
NÂLANDA.
At that time, at that period, there was a town of the name Râgagriha : it was rich, happy, thriving, &c.2 Outside of Râgagriha, in a north-eastern
i Buddhassa ânâi.
? This '&c.' refers to the typical description of towns. Our text contains only the first words of the description, but the Aupapatika Sætra, $ 1, gives it at length. .
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