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90 The Last Five Upũngas ( III. Lect. 4. were well-protected by all the five Samitis viz. well-protected in moving, speaking, accepting alms, putting or taking the pots for alms etc., and in voiding the excretion, urine, cough, bodily dirt, phlegm, and who were protected in all senses by all the three Guptis viz. the protection of mind, specch and body, who were self-restrained female anchorites, who were well-versed in the sacred scriptures, who constituted a large retinue of nuns and who were gradually moving from town to town, came to the city of Vânărasi and having accepted an acceptable residence they stayed there practising selfcontrol and penance.
113. Now, a small group of those Suvvaya nuns, while wandering for alms in high, low and middle-class families in the city of Vã nãrasi, entered the house of the householder Bhadda. Then the housewife Subhaddã saw those nuns coming, and becoming greatly delighted forthwith got up from her seat, and having done so, she went seven or eight steps forward ( out of respect for them ) and bowed down and saluted them, and having made them accept abundant food, drinks, eatables and articles of taste she spoke thus : “ Truly 0 Venerable nuns,
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