ue Brahmana goes scatheless, though he have killed father and
mother, and two valiant kings, though he has destroyed a kingdom with
all its subjects.

295. A true Brahmana goes scatheless, though he have killed father and
mother, and two holy kings, and an eminent man besides.

296. The disciples of Gotama (Buddha) are always well awake, and their
thoughts day and night are always set on Buddha.

297. The disciples of Gotama are always well awake, and their thoughts
day and night are always set on the law.

298. The disciples of Gotama are always well awake, and their thoughts
day and night are always set on the church.

299. The disciples of Gotama are always well awake, and their thoughts
day and night are always set on their body.

300. The disciples of Gotama are always well awake, and their mind day
and night always delights in compassion.

301. The disciples of Gotama are always well awake, and their mind day
and night always delights in meditation.

302. It is hard to leave the world (to become a friar), it is hard to
enjoy the world; hard is the monastery, painful are the houses; painful
it is to dwell with equals (to share everything in common) and the
itinerant mendicant is beset with pain. Therefore let no man be an
itinerant mendicant and he will not be beset with pain.

303. Whatever place a faithful, virtuous, celebrated, and wealthy man
chooses, there he is respected.

304. Good people shine from afar, like the snowy mountains; bad people
are not seen, like arrows shot by night.

305. He alone who, without ceasing, practises the duty of sitting
alone and sleeping alone, he, subduing himself, will rejoice in the
destruction of all desires alone, as if living in a forest.

Chapter XXII. The Downward Course

306. He who says what is not, goes to hell; he also who, having done a
thing, says I have not done it. After death both are equal, they are men
with evil deeds in the next world.

307. Many men whose shoulders are covered with the yellow gown are
ill-conditioned and unrestrained; such evil-doers by their evil deeds go
to hell.

308. Better it would be to swallow a heated iron ball, like flaring
fire, than that a bad unrestrained fellow should live on the charity of
the land.

309. Four things does a wreckless man gain who covets his neighbour's
wife,--a bad reputation, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and
lastly, hell.

310. There is bad reputation, and the evil way