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of this. What is at present relevant?" Then Kalasena, overcome by shame, did not speak anything. Kis'oraka said what took place, without leaving out any detail, from the recognition of Sangamaka, to the procedure towards the giving up of life (by Kālasena). Then thinking, 'Oh, what gratitude, stable affection and greatness of heart, he has !' Dharana said, "O great man, the worship of gods and elders is indeed proper with flower-offerings, fragrant objects and sandal, and not with the killing of life. And also,
There may be fire in water. There may be milk from the horn of a bull. There may be the nectar-juice from poison. But there can never be religious merit from killing. (39 a)
Indeed those ignorant of absolution who kill hundreds of lives, casting a slur upon the sacrifices of deities, obtain miseries in the hell. (40 a)
So desist from this procedure." Kalasena said, "Just as you say, (it shall be done)." Then he made a prohibitory rule for the whole
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