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mantra-makers, mantra-sayers, whose ancient collection hymn, say, word each rest ... these five Brahmins declared; the Brahma-like, the deva-like, the bounded, the breaker of bounds and, fifthly, the Brahmin outcast.
“Which of them Dona, are you ?”
“If such there are, Master Gotama, we at least do not fulfil (the ways) of the Brahmin-outcast ?
“But it is marvellous what you say, Master Gotama ... let Master Gotama take me as a lay-disciple, gone to his refuge, henceforth as long as life lasts.”
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