佛說佛名經 13.19
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13.19
Baoda asked, "What sins did these śramaṇas commit to receive this retribution?" The horse-headed rākṣasa replied, "These śramaṇas received the pure precepts of the Buddha but did not maintain them purely; they did not guard their deportment and acted like secular people, grasping bows and arrows with their hands, losing the deportment of the Buddha. As the scripture states: 'Long ago, there was the bhikṣu Sālī who did not guard his deportment, holding a secular person's bow and arrow with his hand, and suffered evil retribution for ten thousand lifetimes.' By this cause and condition, one should know that if a śramaṇa does not guard his deportment, he falls into the three evil paths; these bhikṣus here are also like this."
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