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B0102030208lakkhaṇasaṃyuttaṃ (characteristics sutra)

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Then the Blessed One addressed the monks: ‘‘Truly, monks, the disciples dwell with vision; truly, monks, the disciples dwell with knowledge, in that a disciple will know, or see, or bear witness to such a thing. That female novice, monks, I had seen before. But I did not declare it. If I were to declare it, others would not believe me. For those who would not believe me, that would be for their harm and suffering for a long time. That female novice, monks, was an evil female novice in the teaching of Kassapa the Perfectly Self-Enlightened One. As a result of the ripening of that kamma, for many years, for many hundreds of years, for many thousands of years, for many hundreds of thousands of years, she was cooked in hell. Having accumulated, by the remaining result of that very kamma, he experiences such an acquisition of self. The eleventh. The second chapter. Its summary – In a well immersed was the adulterer; An excrement-eater was the wicked brahmin. The skinless woman was the adulteress; The leprous woman was the fortune-teller. The one who scattered ashes, scattered on her co-wife; The one with severed head was the murderer of thieves. A monk, a nun, a female trainee; A novice monk, and a novice nun. In Kassapa's discipline, the ordination; Evil kamma they did, so it is said. The chapter on characteristics is completed.

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