________________
LECTURE VII.
27
Receiving alms in a manner to avoid faults ', and controlling one's self, one should wander about in a village (&c.) without a fixed residence; careful among the careless one should beg one's food. (16)
Thus has spoken the Arhat Gñâtriputra, the venerable native of Vaisâlî ?, who possesses the highest knowledge and who possesses the highest faith, who possesses (at the same time) the highest knowledge and the highest faith. (17)
Thus I say.
SEVENTH LECTURE.
THE PARABLE OF THE RAM, ETC. As somebody, to provide for the arrival of) a guest, brings up a young ram, gives it rice and gram”, and brings it up in his yard ; (1)
Then when it is grown up and big, fat and of a large belly, fattened and of a plump body, it is ready for the guest. (2)
As long as no guest comes, the poor (animal) lives; but as soon as a guest arrives, its head is cut off, and it is eaten. (3)
As this ram is well treated for the sake of
1 This is the êshanâsamiti. On the samitis see below, Twelfth Lecture, 2.
2 Vêsaliê= Vaisâlika. See my remarks on this statement in part i, introduction, p. xi, and Hoernle's notes in his translation of the Uvâsaga Dasão, p. 3 ff.
3 Yavasa, explained by mudgamâshâdi. Mutton of gramfed sheep is greatly appreciated in India.
