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race, course of religious discipline, residence, or school of 

 doctrine, whether aged, young, or of middle age. 



tB<s5 <s) bikkhu : A religious mendicant, one who lives up- 

 on the food received as alms ; one who wears apparel formed 

 of remnants of cloth ; a religious recluse, who is received by 

 the formulary " Approach, O Bikkhu !" One who has come 

 to the three-fold refuge ; excellent, virtuous, whether under 

 instruction or fully instructed. 



csDOsto gama: One or more houses whether inhabited or 

 otherwise, enclosed or unenclosed, constitute a gama or vil- 

 lage ; stalls for cattle, or a place where a trading caravan 

 stops more than four months, are called gama ; and the 

 <k)o§)©€)i(?k5j gamupacharo or suburbs of a village, extend as 

 far as a stone's throw from the gate of an enclosed village, 

 or a stone's cast from the house if it be unenclosed. (In this 

 precept the word gama includes all inhabited places, from a 

 shed for cattle and their attendants, to the metropolis of an 

 empire.) 



epd" asqs&o every place not included in a gama and its 

 suburbs : (thus a field more than a stone's throw from any 

 house may be called an Aran-ya or wilderness.) 



ep^«2f>ar o adinnan, not given, any thing not abandoned, not 

 thrown away, that which is preserved, or kept, or claimed by 

 a person saying "this is mine." All things of this kind are 

 q^&^&r.o adinnan. 



G&^is&o&.&io t'heyya sankhato, a thievish intent, a desire 

 to take away. 



ep<^c3coos adiyeyya : taken, abstracted, changed from its 

 position, moved from its place. 



c<3 <5Vc3o tal'harupan (such kind) to the value of a pada 

 or more than a pada (a rupee or more than a rupee.) 



<5)c53^eno rajano, kings paramount: inferior princes hav- 

 ing regal authority in their own districts, or tributary princes ; 

 governors of provinces, chief ministers and judges, or any 

 persons exercising regal functions. 



