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Chapter 23
Chapter 23
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Chapter 23

23.

Now at that time Bhikkhunîs dwelt in the forest, and men of abandoned life violated them.

p. 363

They told this matter to the Blessed One.

'A Bhikkhunî is not, O Bhikkhus, to adopt the forest life. Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a dukkata 1.'

Footnotes
  1. 363:1

    Compare Mahâvagga I, 30, 4, and I, 77, and our note above on X, 17, 8.

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