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propagated from roots, from the trunks (by cuttings), from 

 joints, from buds, or from seeds : but the Samano Gotamo 

 abstains from thus injuring the trees {a) and plants. 



Or, Priests, a person still subject to his passions, praising 

 the Tatagato may say, some Samanas and Bramins, eating 

 the food provided by the faithful, are accustomed to hoard 

 up property, such as meat, drink, clothes, equipages, beds, 

 perfumes and raw grain ; but the Samano Gotamo abstains 

 from thus hoarding up property. 



Or, Priests, a person still subject to his passions, praising 

 the Tatagato may say, some Samanas and Bramins, eating 

 the food provided for them by the faithful, are accustomed 

 to attend public spectacles, such as dancing, singing, con- 

 certs, theatricals, orations, recitations with musical accom- 

 paniments, funeral ceremonies, drummings, balls, gymnas- 

 tics, tumblings, feasts in honor of deceased ancestors (col- 

 lecting their bones, washing them, and placing them in 

 heaps with much lamentations, and ending in riotous fes- 

 tivity) combats between elephants, horses, buffaloes, bulls, 

 goats, rams, cocks and quails: cudgel playing, boxing, 

 wrestling, fencing, muster of troops, marching, of armies 

 and reviews : but the Samano Gotamo abstains from these 

 exhibitions, (b) 



Or, Priests, a person still subject to his passions, prais- 

 ing the Tatagato may say, Some Samanas and Bramins, 

 eating the food provided for them by the faithful, occupy 

 their time with games detrimental to their progress in 

 virtue; that is with a board of 64 squares or of 100 squares; 

 tossing up, hopping over diagrams formed on the ground, 

 removing substances from a heap without shaking the re- 

 mainder, dicing, trap-ball, sketching rude figures, (daubing) 

 tossing the ball, blowing trumpets, ploughing matches, 

 tumbling, forming mimic windmills, measuring various 

 substances, chariot races, archery, shooting small stones from 

 the fingers, guessing the thoughts of others, and mimicry ; 



(a) Vegetable life is conserved by Budha the same as animal 

 life. To destroy the life of any being inferior to man, and to 

 destroy vegetable life, being arranged under the same class of 

 offences, viz. Pachitiya The charge of cutting breaking &c. 

 herbs and plants brought against the persons here mentioned, 

 may refer to cultivation generally, which is regarded as impro- 

 per to be attended to by a priest. 



(b) In this and the following paragraphs some of the terms 

 are of doubtful meaning, yet the general sense is clear. The 

 Comment is followed in the explanation of the terms. 



