Ordination of a Burmese Priest of Bupp’ xa. Q77 
to receive the offerings that would be made to you ; for if unworthily such 
are received and turned to use, it is like a person attempting to swallow a 
lump of red-hot iron.” The new priest answers, ‘ Good, my lord.” 
** The man who enters into priest’s orders must carefully note the day, the 
month, the hour, the length of his shadow,@%) and the season of the year 
at which he becomes a priest. Four things are there which must be avoided ; 
four, also, which should be done. 
“ To obtain food, he must go round and beg,@*) even till wearied in his 
limbs by so doing, and on food obtained in this manner must he all his life 
subsist. If a pupil reverently invite him, he may go and eat at that pupil’s 
house, or he may carry thence food offered him. He may also eat the food 
which a pupil brings to his monastery and there reverently offers him: he 
may partake of the food presented to a number of priests in a body, and of 
that offered by lot. Thus, of whatever is offered on any day of the increase 
of the moon,“*) and whatever is offered on any day of its decrease, that 
which is offered on a worship day,@® and that which is offered on the day 
after a worship-day, of all or any of these may he eat.” The new priest 
answers, “ Good, my lord.” 
« A garment made from rags that any one has thrown away, and which 
the priest having collected has washed and sewn together, this may he wear 
and with such must he be clothed even till the end of his life. But if by a 
pupil a garment be presented to him, he may wear such, whether it be of 
that expensive and fine kind which is brought from a distant country, or 
whether it be of cotton, or of silk, or of woollen cloth, or the woven bark 
of a tree, or that made from the down of birds; any of these he may wear 
instead.” Answer. “ Good, my lord.” 
«« After having become a priest, if he has no monastery to stay in, he 
must live under a tree,@7) and in that manner must he be all his life. Unless 
a pupil make an enclosure, and build a monastery, and offer it; in this a 
priest may reside, whether it have a lofty top or a square one, or one of 
only one story, or be a monastery built of masonry in an arched form: in 
any of these it is lawful for a priest to reside.” Answer. ‘Good, my lord.” 
«« T will direct you what is to be done in case of sickness. Having col- 
lected the urine of a black bull or ox, boil it, and dissolve salt therein, and 
afterwards add these three fruits ;@*) this, while fresh, may be kept as me- 
dicine ; also, any medicine which has been thrown away as useless by 
others, and which a priest finds, he may take for himself. ‘The medicine 
