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Adapted from the Translation by T. W. Rhys Davids and Hermann Oldenberg
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CHULAVAGGA (THE MINOR SECTION)
FIFTH KHANDHAKA (ON THE DAILY LIFE OF THE BHIKKHUS)
Chapter-7.
1. Now at that time a certain Bhikkhu, tormented by distaste (for meditation, &c.), castrated himself. They told this matter to the Lord Buddha.
'When one thing wanted cutting off, O Bhikkhus, that foolish fellow has cut off another! You are not, O Bhikkhus, to castrate yourselves. Whosoever does so, shall be guilty of a thulakaya(big/grave offence).'
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