The first half of the statement of the two extremes; the second, self-mortification, follows immediately. Rhys Davids renders hina gamma as 'low and pagan', a Victorian missionary idiom for what is better rendered 'inferior, of the village'. Footnote markers are removed and the sentence is left unfinished as the section ends.
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TextThere are two extremes, O Bhikkhus, which the man who has given up the world ought not to follow, the habitual practice, on the one hand of those things whose attraction depends upon the passions, and especially of sensuality, a low and pagan way (of seeking satisfaction) unworthy, unprofitable, and fit only for the worldly-minded -- 1 ReferenceDhamma-Kakka-Ppavattana Sutta 2 (Rhys Davids, SBE 11) 1 Reference SchemeCollection, Book, Section 1 Translation
TranslationBuddhist Suttas (Sacred Books of the East, vol. 11) 1 Connections
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T. W. Rhys Davids, Clarendon Press / Internet Sacred Text Archive, 1881Dhamma-Kakka-Ppavattana Sutta 2 (Rhys Davids, SBE 11)View the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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