The History of Indian Literature c9.346

c9.346

³³⁰ If by the *pravrajitás* in viii. 363, Buddhist *brahmacháriṇís* be really meant, as asserted by Kullúka, then this particular precept—which puts the violation of their persons on the same footing with violence done to "other public women," and punishes the offence with a small fine only—is to be taken not merely, as Talboys Wheeler takes it (*Hist. of India*, ii. 583), as a bitter sarcasm, but also as evidence that the work was composed at a time when the Buddhist nuns had already really deteriorated; cf. the remarks in a similar instance in regard to Páṇini, *I. St.*, v. 141.