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ea^S)«5?<9 C5G5^«S<§3 An enactment for all countries. 



zs'jS)~j6 .gna^ss^ q>e3oc>jtf «no«s^s^<§5<§ Does the 

 enactment apply to all, or only to a specific class. 



ea a S) 3 d <an e» zsdfs^ «5 «3 The enactment applies to all. 



«®eas\o50 ec5^?>5€3 ^tsas^o sz&f-ssqd^SS Does the enact- 

 ment apply to one party (in the criminal act) or to both 

 parties. 



g?£s®&io *3Zoc{^& -63 The enactment applies to both 

 parties, &c, 



And thus it proceeds, beginning with the Parajika and 

 going through the other books. 



I have mentioned that the doctrines of Budha are not 

 systematically arranged in any one discourse, or series of 

 consecutive discourses, but are to be found in detached 

 sermons : in a similar manner the criminal and ecclesiastical 

 codes were not formed at once, but enacted as circumstances 

 occurred. I shall confine my present papers to extracts 

 from the Books on Discipline, i. e., the Winiya Pitaka, mak- 

 ing observations when necessary. The first will be a dis- 

 course which is the first in the book called Parajika, in which 

 Goutama asserts his supremacy, and gives some detail of the 

 meditations which immediately preceded his becoming Budha. 

 The second extract will be from the third book of discipline, 

 Maha Waggo, being the first of the Ecclesiastical code, and 

 will commence with the day on which Goutama became 

 Budha, and be continued till the delivery of his first sermon 

 to the five associated priests. 



The fiest discourse in the Parajika. 



t( When the blessed Budha lived at Weranjaya, accom- 

 panied by about 500 priests, the Bramin Weranjo heard that 

 the venerable Samano Goutama, of the Sakya race, having 

 retired from the Sakya family and become a priest, had 

 arrived at Weranjaya, and was living with 500 priests at the 

 foot of a Puchimanda tree. The fame of the venerable 



