Brahmajalasutta 1.11
Brahmajala Sutta (Dialogues of the Buddha) 1.11
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1.11
‘Or he might say: “Whereas some recluses and Brahmans, while living on food provided by the faithful, continue addicted to the injury of seedlings and growing plants whether propagated from roots or cuttings or joints or buddings or seeds -Gotama the recluse holds aloof from such injury to seedlings and growing plants.”
1.11.n1
Buddhaghosa gives examples of each of these five classes of the vegetable. kingdom without explaining the terms. But it is only the fourth which is doubtful. It may mean ‘graftings,’ if the art of grafting was then known in the Ganges valley.
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- Brahmajālasutta — Pāli