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member of another body of teachers. If any venerable one 

 consents to grant four months probation to this person, formerly 

 a member of another bod[y of teachers, let him remain silent. 

 If he do not consent let him speak. Probation for four months 

 is given by the Sangho to this person, formerly a member of 

 another body of teachers. The Sangho consents and there^ 

 fore is silent, and thus I receive it. 



B.udha then explains the reason of this proceeding, arising 

 from the habits of these teachers of other bodies ; namely, that 

 they visit the houses for alms at unseasonable hours, (when 

 the women may be sleeping with their persons exposed :) that 

 they resort for alms to places where there are prostitutes^ 

 widows and grown up girls, or where there are catamites, or 

 female ascetics ; that they are loud and obstreperous in con- 

 versation ; not careful in the things they ought to be engaged 

 in, are indolent, inquisitive, not under controul, dull in under- 

 standing, lose their temper when their doctrines are contro- 

 verted, and speak against Budha, his doctrines and the priests. 

 He then states that if they continue thus, they ought not to 

 receive Upasampada at the end of their probation. 



He also directs, that if the person who seeks to be admitted 

 on probation be a naked ascetic, the Upajjayo shall supply 

 him with garments and see to his being shaved. That if an 

 ascetic with clotted hair, a worshipper of fire, seek admission 

 to the priesthood, he may be admitted without probation, as 

 their doctrines are correct respecting the results of moral 

 conduct. And that any one who is of the Sakya race is to 

 have the same privilege, although he may have been a member 

 of any other body of teachers ; and that he concedes this to 

 them as being of the same race with- himself. 



At one period great sickness prevailed in Magadha, espe- 

 cially leprosy (<s)($o kutt'han), ulcers (oa^iDa gando, eruptions 

 ©f various kinds), dry itch (^GoQeso), consumption {<?.ee o c^ea o), 

 and epilepsy (efts e)o6>tf)); these were named the five diseases. 

 A number of persons sought the aid of the king's physician,, 

 offering him the whole of their property, and even to become 



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