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KULLAVAGGA.
V, 33, 3.
'This cannot be, Lord.'
'You are not, O Bhikkhus, to learn the Lokâyata system. Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a dukkata.'
Now at that time the Khabbaggiya Bhikkhus taught the Lokayata system.
People murmured, &c., saying, 'Like those still enjoying the pleasures of the world!'
They told this matter to the Blessed One.
'You are not, O Bhikkhus, to teach the Lokayata system. Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a dukkata.'
[Similar paragraphs to the last, ending]
'You are not, O Bhikkhus, to learn-to teachthe low arts1 (of divination, spells, omens, astrology, sacrifices to gods, witchcraft, and quackery).'
3. Now at that time the Blessed One when, surrounded by a great assembly, he was preaching the Dhamma, sneezed. The Bhikkhus raised a great and mighty shout, Long life to our Lord the Blessed One! Long life to the Happy One!' and by the sound thereof the discourse was interrupted. Then the Blessed One said to the Bhikkhus :
'Now if when a man has sneezed, O Bhikkhus, some one says, "Long life to you," can he live or die on that account?'
'Not so, Lord.'
1 Tirakkhâna-viggâ. Literally, 'brutish, or beastly, wisdom.' These are set out in full in the seven sections of the Maha Sila (translated in Rh. D.'s 'Buddhist Suttas from the Pâli,' pp. 196200). As noticed above, the Lokâyata system is there mentioned (§ 5) as one of them. Learning or teaching these things are forbidden in almost identical terms to the Bhikkhunîs in the Bhikkhunî-vibhanga, Pâkittiyas XLIX and L.
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