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manner in which cloth &c. has bitten by rats, explaining 

 the ritual of fire, (offerings to the God Agni) with what 

 kind of wood, or with what ladle they are to be made ; 

 whether the offering is to be made with husks, with bran, 

 with rice, with clarified butter, with oil, with substances 

 ejected from the mouth, or with an admixture of blood. 

 Teaching mantras for the body, for fields and gardens, for 

 the military, against goblins and demons, to obtain abun- 

 dant crops, to cure snake bites, expel poison, cure bites of 

 scorpions and rats ; divination by birds, or by the croaking 

 of ravens ; foretelling the state of health; mantras to make 

 man invulnerable, and interpreting the languages of birds 

 and beasts. But the Samano Gotamo abstains from thus 

 seeking an unworthy living by animal sciences. 



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, obtain a liveli- 

 hood by the unworthy means of animal sciences ; such as, 

 explaining the qualities of certain specified jewels, staffs, 

 garments, swords, arrows, bows, warlike implements, wo- 

 men, men, youths, maidens, male and female slaves, ele- 

 phants, horses, buffaloes, bulls, oxen, goats, sheep, fowls, 

 snipes, inguanas, plants, turtle and deer. But the Samano 

 Gotamo abstains from seeking an unworthy living by animal 

 sciences. 



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, obtain a liveli- 

 hood by the unworthy means of animal sciences : that is by 

 predicting events ; as, the king will take his departure, the 

 king will return ; the king within the city will advance, 

 the king outside the city will retreat ; the king outside the 

 city will advance, the king inside the city will retreat ; the 

 king within the city will gain the victory, the king outside 

 the city will be defeated : the king outside the city will be 

 the victor, the king inside the city will be vanquished : to 

 this one will be victory, to that one defeat. But the Sa- 

 mano Gotamo abstains from seeking an unworthy livelihood 

 by such animal sciences. 



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, obtain a liveli- 

 hood by the unworthy means of animal sciences, such as 

 predicting there will be an eclipse of the moon ; there will 

 be an eclipse of the sun ; there will be an eclipse of a planet : 



