CEYLON BRANCH— ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY, 2 1 



the sun and moon will move in the same path, the sun ami 

 moon will move in diverse paths ; the planets will move in 

 the same path ; the planets will move in diverse paths ; there 

 will be falling meteors and fiery corruscations in the atmos- 

 phere ; there will be earthquakes, and storms of thunder and 

 lightning; the rising and setting of the sun, moon and pla- 

 nets will be cloudy, portending coming events : there will 

 be an eclipse of the sun having such an import, an eclipse of 

 the moon having such an import ; an eclipse of the planets 

 having such an import ; the sun and moon will move in the 

 same path portending such and such events ; the sun and 

 moon will move in divers paths portending such events : the 

 planets will move in the same path portending such events ; 

 the planets will move in diverse paths importing such 

 events; there will be falling meteors portending such events; 

 fiery corruscations in the atmosphere portending such 

 events; there will be thunder storms portending such 

 events ; the rising and setting of the sun, moon and planets, 

 cloudy or fair will portend such events. But the Samano 

 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 abundance of rain, there will be a 

 deficiency of rain ; there will be abundance of food, there 

 will be famine ; there will be tranquillity, there will be dis- 

 turbances ; the season will be sickly, the season will be 

 healthy ; or they practise conveyancing, casting accounts, 

 making verses, or composing novels (or history). But the 

 Samano Gotamo abstains from seeking an unworthy liveli- 

 hood by practising 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 

 respecting taking in marriage and giving in marriage ; form- 

 ing alliances; dissolving connections; calling in property 

 or laying it out ; procuring prosperity or causing adversity ; 

 removing sterility ; teaching mantras to produce dumbness, 

 locked jaw, distortion of the hand or deafness; or to obtain 

 an oracular response through the medium of a mirror, or 

 from a pythoness, or from a demon ; teaching the ritual to 

 be observed in worshipping the sun, or Brahma ; also 



