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23. Whereas/gentlemen/some recluses and Brahmins/having eaten the foods that
offered with faith/they/such/quarrelling talk/being addicted/dwell/as
follows/Why/you/this dhamma and discipline/do not understand?/I understand this
dhamma and discipline/How could you understand this dhamma and discipline?/You
perform wrong practice/I am performing right/I am consistent/You are not/What could
be said at first/you said it last/What could be said at last/ you said it first/Which is to
be preferred you reversed/ which is to be produced you talk/which is to be reproved
you take/Gossip should throw away/do explain or make it sufficient/thus/from such
quarrelling talk/abstained/recluse Gotama/ It is thus/bhikkhus/where an ordinary
man/of the Tathāgata/in praise speaking/would speak.

24. Whereas/gentlemen/some recluses and Brahmins/having eaten the foods that
offered with faith/they/such sending and going on messages/being addicted/dwell/as
follows/to ths kings/to the ministers of the kings/to the the warriors/ to the
Brahmins/to the householders/ to the princess/as go here/go there/take this/take this to
there/thus or/ from such/sending and going on messages/abstained/recluse Gotama/ It
is thus/bhikkhus/where an ordinary man/of the Tathāgata/in praising speech/would
speak.

25. Whereas/gentlemen/some recluses and Brahmins/having eaten the foods that
offered with faith/they are deceitful/ talkative/ fortune tellers/ jugglers/ desire ones to
the gain through the gain/ thus or/from such deceitful and
talkativeness/abstained/recluse Gotama/ It is thus/bhikkhus/where an ordinary man/of
the Tathāgata/in praising speech/would speak.
Middle Morality is ended

26. Whereas/gentlemen/some recluses and Brahmins/having eaten the foods that
offered with faith/they/ this such low art/by wrong livelihood/life/lead/as
follows/prophecy of mark on the body/omen/existence/dream/charecterisitic/mouse-
gnawing/fire oblation/spoon oblation/ladle oblation/husk oblation/rice oblation/ghee
oblation/sesamum-oil oblation/blowing oblation/blood oblation/body-mark/sites’
art/political science/auspicious charms’s knowledge/ ghost’s art/art of extensive/
snake’s art/poison’s art/scorpion’s art/mouse’s art/bird’s art/crow’s art/foretelling the
life-span/arrow art/thus/from this type of low art/livelihood/abstained/recluse Gotama.
It is thus/bhikkhus/where an ordinary man/of the Tathāgata/in praising speech/would
speak.