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" Even with an animal." The precept thus amended, stood 



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 khu metunan clamman patiseweyya antamaso tiratchanaga- 

 tayapi parajiko boti asanwaso. What priest soever shall 

 have sexual intercourse, even with an animal, he is overcome 

 and is excluded. 



Some time afterwards, several priests who had indulged in 

 eating, drinking and bathing, yielded to their sensual pro- 

 pensities, broke the rule of chastity, and were consequently 

 expelled. Afterwards, being afflicted with sickness, loss of 

 relatives, &c, they wished to re« enter the priesthood, and 

 waited upon the priest Ananda, who was a relative of Budha 

 and his personal attendant, and requested him to speak to 

 Budha on their behalf, extenuating their former conduct, and 

 engaging to act well in future. Although Budha refused 

 to re-admit them, he added a clause of great importance to 

 his law, by which persons who felt either unwilling or unable 

 to keep the rules of the priesthood might retire, without im- 

 pediment to their re -admission at any future period. But if 

 they neglected to avail themselves of this, and committed 

 the crime, their expulsion was final. The clause is tB^Qeno 



8ts)«)o bikkhunan sikkha sajiwa samapanno sikkhan apache- 

 hakkhaya dubbalyan anawikatwa. " Having engaged to live 

 obedient to the laws of the priesthood, and who has not made 

 confession of his weakness and withdrawn himself from those 

 laws." The whole law stands thus : — Steoes w8-ss§ tS-esQoro 



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 bikkhunan sikkha sajiwa samapanno sikkhan apachchakkhaya 

 dubalyan anawikatwa metunan damman patiseveyya antamaso 

 tirachchanagatayapi parajiko hoti asanwaso. What priest 



