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ask a new comer whether he is a murderer of his mother. The farther 

 adventures of the same matricide related ; — his death and his new birth, 

 first in hell, {leaf 179,) and afterwards in heaven amongst the gods. 



L,eaf 183 to 188. The murder of a father ; — circumstances that pre- 

 ceded and followed it, (told in the same manner, and nearly in the same 

 words as above, in regard to the murder of a mother.) 



Leaf 188. Shakya at M-nyan-yod (Sans. Sliravasti.) The edicts of 

 the kings of Magadha and Kosala (when they adopted Buddhism) that in 

 their realms no robbery should be committed. Robbers, if detected, are to 

 be expelled from their country, and restoration of damage to be made from 

 the king's treasury. Robberies and murders committed on the confines of 

 Magadha and Kosala : — some traders, that have escaped, go to the king of 

 Kosala, and inform him of the event : — the king sends his troops ; the rob- 

 bers are defeated ; some escape ; some are killed ; sixty taken alive and 

 brought to the king, together with the things and effects found with them. 

 The examination of the robbers by the king — their answers. They are put 

 to death, one escapes when carried to the place of execution, takes his 

 refuge in a monastery of the priests of Shakya, enters into the religious 

 order. He is found afterwards to have been a robber, and the murderer of 

 an Arha7i (Saint.) The circumstances of that detection ; — a rule is made 

 that thenceforth no murderer of an Arhan shall be received into the 

 religious order, and that they shall ask of every new comer whether he is a 

 murderer of an Arhan. 



Leaf 100. Nye'-var-JETk'hor (Sans. Upali) asks of ShXkya whether 

 one, who has caused divisions amongst the priests, is to be received into 

 their religious order. No such shall be admitted : — likewise, no one shall 

 be received into the order, who with an ill intention to a Tathdgata has 

 shed blood ; — nor any that may previously have fallen off, by having 

 committed any of the four great crimes. 



Leaf 191. All such persons as have any defect in their body, itiem- 



bers or limbs, are prohibited from admission into the religious order of 



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