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who are now well disposed. Again, O friend, it is for the 

 further dissatisfaction of those who are still dissatisfied, and 

 for causing a new state to those who are now well disposed. 

 Again, O friend, if it be for the dissatisfaction of those who 

 are still dissatisfied, some of those who are now well disposed,, 

 will become of another mind. 



Then those Bhikkhus in various ways seoffed at the ven- 

 erable Sudinno, and made known the fact to Bhagawa. 



Then Bhagawa, for that cause, and that subject, caused 

 the company of Bhikkhus to be assembled, and enquired of 

 the venerable Sudinno : — Is it true, Sudinno, that you have 

 cohabited with your former wife ? It is true, O Bhagawa. 

 Buddho Bhagawa censured him and said : — O wicked, empty, 

 cross-grained, hideous, irreligious, unsanctified, and worthless 

 man ! vain man, after being initiated in the well-enunciated 

 course of discipline, how now will you be able to practise the 

 perfect and pure Brahmachariya ? Has not the Dhamma 

 by me for the abandonment of lust, &c, &c, — Vide supra. 



It were good for thee, O vain man, thou shouldst place 

 thy private member in a most poisonous serpent's mouth; but 

 it is not so, cohabiting with a woman. It were good for thee 

 if thou shouldst place thy private member in the black serpent's 

 mouth, &c, &c; in a heap of burning charcoal, &c, &c. 

 What is the reason ? From either of those causes, O vain 

 man, you may possibly neither die, nor on the dissolution of 

 the body, by that cause, be born in either of the Apaya, Dug- 

 gata, Winipata and Niraya hells. 



From this cause, O vain man, after the dissolution of the 

 body, and death, you may be (will be) born in Apaya, Duggata, 

 Winipata or Niraya hells. 



From that cause, O vain man, you will arrive at a sinful 

 nature, an adulterous state, a degraded condition, lecherous 



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