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BOOK 2, LECTURE 7.
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Having (on Pôsaha-days) abstained from eating, drinking, bathing, and using beds or chairs, may they, on their decease, be said to make a (righteous) end of their life?” “Certainly, they do make such an end of their life. “They are called animated beings, (&c., all as in § 13, down to) this interpretation of yours is not right.” (17)
The Venerable One spoke thus: “There are some followers of the Sramanas, who have made this declaration : we cannot, submitting to the tonsure, renounce the life of a householder and enter the monastic state; we also cannot strictly observe the Pôsaha on the fourteenth and the eighth days of each fortnight, (on the days of new-moon) and full-moon; but while we are preparing ourselves for death by fasting, we shall abstain from food and drink without longing for the end; we shall renounce all ill-usage of living beings, all lying speech, all taking of things not given, all sexual intercourse, all property, (saying): "neither do nor cause anything (sinful) to be done for my sake.' (All the rest as in the preceding paragraph.)” (18)
And the Venerable One spoke thus: “There are some men of great desires, great undertakings, &c.2, who do not abstain from all ill-usage of living beings, (&c., down to) from all property. During the whole time, from their taking the vows of a follower of the Sramanas till their death, they abstain from injury to living beings. Then they die; in their next existence they experience their Karman, and receive an evil lot. (The rest as before.)" (19)
And the Venerable One spoke thus : “There are
1 Samlê hanag hûsanâghûsiya.
? See II, 2, 61.
