This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text.
Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book
(without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.
1896 Excerpt: ...highly praised; Itiv. p. III. Praise of the true
Brahman, S. Nip. p. 116. 7 Ang. N. II, p. 68. 8 Ang. N. I, p. 149:
"Atta te, purisa, jSnati saccam va yadi va musa." The addition The
other sources, the smrti-sile iadviddm and the dcarah s&dhunam
of Manu, have not been lost sight of by the Buddhists. To these
categories belong the duties qualified as panditapaiinatta and
sappurisapahfiatta, and consisting in almsgiving, in ahimsd, and in
supporting father and mother1. It is hardly accidental that almost
all passages where moral duties are enjoined are either wholly or
partly in metrical form, and this circumstance in combination with
the fact of those passages containing so much that is contrary to
the fundamental articles of the creed, leads us to the inference
that the sect originally had no moral code at all, except the
prohibitions and duties prescribed to the members of the Order,
which only partly coincide with the laws of society in general. If
we wish to form a just estimate of the character of Buddhist
morals, such as laid down in the final redaction of the canonical
books, we must bear in mind: 1. that the prescriptions were
intended to supply the wants both of the ecclesiastics and of the
laity; 2. that the Arhats are, to a certain extent, above common
morality. The Sage, muni, has no attachment, does nothing what is
pleasant nor what is unpleasant2. Those who are wise abandon their
children3. A man who leaves his poor wife, the mother of his child,
in order to become a. monk, and obstinately refuses to take care of
her and the child, is held up to the admiration of the world as
having done something very grand. Still at other times we read that
one's wife is the best friend, and that a wife is the most
excellent of goods, though rep...
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