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ANALYSIS OF THE DULVA, 



Leaf 172. The story of " iiTLu-G^zHON-NU-^S'pRUL-PA-HoD-sRUNG" 

 (Sans. Kashyapa). An ancient Buddha, XWrng dX Vardnasi, instructs his 

 disciples where to perform their meditations ; and advises them to hve 

 such a chaste and pure life that they may not repent it afterwards. The 

 disciples of Shakya will imitate those of Kashyapa in performing their 

 meditations — they commit many excesses ; — restrictions and prohibitions 

 thereupon. 



Leaf 175. Shakya at Mnyan-yod (Sans. Shrctvasti) A Mu-stegs-chan 

 monk (Sans. Tirthika) once, on the 14th of the month, on the confession 

 day of the Buddhists, enters into their Vihar, admires their furniture and 

 the mode of living, and says : *' The Buddhists excel us in furniture (or 

 household stutf) and in good fare; but we excel them in religion and 

 good morals." — To enjoy both in their proper places he purposes to make 

 profession of both religions ; — is detected and expelled. A rule is esta- 

 blished, that theiiceforth no one shall be admitted into the order, who had 

 become formerly a Tirthika ( Mii-stegs-pa, in Tibetan) or a brahmanist 

 in general. 



Leaf 177. Shakya at M.nyan-yod (Sans. Shravasti.) The murder 

 of a mother;— the circumstances preceding and following it: — various 

 advice given to the matricide by the Tirthikas (that he should throw 

 himself into fire, — ^take or swallow poison, — precipitate himself from a 

 steep place, or strangle himself by a rope.) In his confusion, he takes 

 refuge in the monastery of Shaky a's disciples ; hears there accidentally from 

 the mouth of a priest reading, that "he who opposes good actions to a 

 committed crime, may shine even in this world like the sun and moon, after 

 having escaped from a cloud." He repents, and, that he may yet efface the 

 horrors of his crime by good actions, he resolves to take the religious 

 character : — he does so, and, in a short time by his earnest application, he 

 arrives at great perfection. Shakya is informed by the priests of his being 

 a matricide, orders him to be expelled, and makes a rule that no matricide 

 is to be admitted into that order ; and that thenceforth they should always 



