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“ And when in wedlock he has begotten (a child), he has his hair-beard shaved off. . . and goes forth ....
“ And being thus gone forth, aloof from sensuous appetites ... he enters and abides in the first (to the) fourth musing ... he enters and abides in the first (to the) fourth musing.
“And having made these four musings become, on the breaking up of the body after death, he arises in the well-faring heaven world.
“Thus, Dona, a Brahmin becomes deva-like.
“ And how, Dona, becomes a Brahmin Brahmin bounded ?
“Take the case, Dona of a Brahmin of similar birth and conduct . . . who weds in like manner. . . .
“And when in wedlock he has begotten a child, the fondness for children obsesses him and he settles on the family estate, and does not go forth from the home to the homeless life.
“ In the bounds of the Brahmin of old he stays nor transgresses them; and it is said: ‘ Within bounds he keeps and transgresses not.’ And therefore the Brahmin is called bounded.
“ Thus, Dona, the Brahmin becomes bounded.
“And how, Dona, becomes a Brahmin- a breaker of bounds ?
“Take the case, Dona, of a Brahmin of similar birth and conduct. ... He hands over the teacher’s fee and seeks a wife either according to Dhamma or nonDhamma: one bought or sold or Brahmani on whom the water-pouring ceremony has been performed.
“He goes to a Brahmani or to the daughter of a noble or a low-caste man or a serf ; to the daughter of an outcast or a hunter or a bamboo-worker or a cart-maker or an aboriginal; he goes to a woman with child, to one giving suck, to one in her season, to one not in her season; and for him the Brahmani
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