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matter. I ask you a second time and a third time. In this 
matter the brethren are perfectly pure, therefore they say 
nothing, so do I understand. 
Four RULES REGARDING DEFEAT. 
Pham-par-hgyur-wahi-chos- bshi. 
Parajika. 
Summary.—Impure conduct, theft, murder and falsehood 
—these are the four (sins) regarding which rules are given here. 
Here are, O brethren, four rules regarding Defeat as known 
from the So-sor-thar-pa recited each half-month. 
. Whatsoever monk, who has received the monk’s system 
of training and has not abandoned or injured it, indulges him- 
self in impure intercourse down even with a brute beast, incurs 
Defeat and must not live in the community of monks. 
2. Whatsoever monk living in a village or monastery takes 
a thing not given—which is counted as theft—in such a mat- 
ner that a king or a minister would seize him and kill, impri- 
son or banish him saying “‘ thou art a thief, thou art stupid, 
thou art dishonest’’—the monk, who thus takes a thing not 
nar incurs Defeat and must not live in the community of 
monks. 
human being to commit suicide or celebrates to him the praises 
of death in such a way that in consequence thereof he dies— 
the monk who thus causes the death of a human being incurs 
atsoever monk without possessing a clear and per 
of himself, «‘I possess superhuman 
owledge, I am an elect, I am a specialist, I know this, I see 
profession and being desirou 
the monk at another time, 
thus, ‘‘ O brethren, when I knew not I said that I knew, whet 
“a , it was but vain, wild and false 
language —the monk who speaks in this way, except through 
excessive confidence, incurs Defeat and must not live in the 
community of monks 
have, O brethren, recited the four rules regarding 
Defeat. If a monk has committed sin arising from the 
