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the day after a worship -day, of all or any of these may he eat.''^ 

 The new priest answers, " Good, my lord." 



" A garment made from rags that any one has thrown away^ 

 and which the priest having collected has washed and sewn toge- 

 ther, this may he wear and with such must he be clothed even till 

 the end of his life. But if by a pupil a garment be presented to 

 him, he may wear such, whether it be of that expensive and fine 

 kind which is brought from a distant country, or whether it be of 

 cotton, or of silk, or of woollen cloth, or the woven bark of a tree, 

 or that made from the down of birds ; any of these he may wear 

 instead." Answer. " Good, my lord/' 



" After having become a priest, if he has no monastery to stay 

 in, he mustHve under a tree,(27) and in that manner must he be 

 all his life. Unless a pupil make an enclosure, and build a monas- 

 tery, and offer it ; in this a priest may reside, whether it have a 

 lofty top or a square one, or one of only one story, or be a monaste* 

 ry, built of masonry in an arched form : in any of these it is lawful 

 for a priest to reside." Answer. "Good, my lord." 



" I will direct you what is to be done in case of sickness. Hav- 

 ing collected the urine of a black bull or ox, boil it, and dissolve 

 salt therein, and afterwards add these three fruits this while 

 fresh, may be kept as medicine ; also, any medicine which has 

 been thrown away as useless by others, and which a priest finds, 

 he may take for himself. The medicine also which a pupil offers, 

 that may be used, whether it be butter, or cream, or sesame oil, or 

 honey, or molasses : all these may be used.'*— Answer. " Good, 

 my lord." 



" After a man has become a priest, he may not marry ; but 

 must lead a life of strict celibacy ; if he do not conform to this, he 

 is no longer a priest, nor of the children of the deity. As soon 

 may the severed head be rejoined to the trunk, and the corpse re- 

 vive, as such a one continue a priest ; and even until the end of 

 life must he so remain ; thus hath the divinity appointed." — Answer. 

 " Good, my lord." 



" After becoming a priest, he must not take, without the owner's 

 leave, even a morsel of grass, or the paring of a bamboo, for if he 

 do so he is not of the children of the divinity. He must not take 

 the value of a matt (a quarter kyat or tical), or over this, or under 

 it; as soon may the withered leaf be rejoined to the tree and thrive 

 again, as such a person remain in the priesthood. 



" The idea of taking away the life of a man must not enter into 

 the mind of a priest ; neither must he take away that of brute ani- 



