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35. There are/bhikkhus/some recluses and Brahmins/those are believers of former
end/follow the former end/concerning on the former end/various explanatory
words/declare/with eighteen grounds/They/Venerable/recluses and Brahmins/What
having come/What having focused/ believers of former end/follow the former
end/concerning on the former end/various explanatory words/declare/with eighteen
grounds?

36. There are/bhikkhus/some recluses and Brahmins/eternalist/the eternal self and
world are proclaimed with four grounds. They/Venerable/recluses and
Brahmins/having which approached/having which focused/those eternalists/the eternal
of self and the world are proclaimed/four grounds?
37. Here/bhikkhus/some recluse or Brahmin/by means of ardour/by means of
exertion/by means of application/by means of earnestness/by means of careful
thought/such concentration touches as where the concentrated mind/various former
dwellings places recollects as follows/one birth/two births/three births/four births/five
births/ten births/twenty births/thrirty births/fourty births/fifty births/a hundred births/a
thousand births/a ten hundred thousand births/many hundred births/ many thousand
births/many ten hundred thousand births/there/ thus was my name/thus was my
clan/thus was caste/thus was my food/thus was I experienced the happiness and
unhappiness/thus was the end of life/He/from there/passed away/was born here/

Thus/with such manner/with such indicate/many former dwelling places/recollects/He
said thus/eternal is the self and world/and barren/standing erect/firmly fixed/ those
same beings are running through/wandering/passing away/borning/existing as an
eternal/Why it is so? Im/ by means of ardour/by means of exertion/by means of
application/by means of earnestness/by means of careful thought/such concentration
touches as where the concentrated mind/various former dwellings places recollects as
follows/one birth/two births/three births/four births/five births/ten births/twenty
births/thrirty births/fourty births/fifty births/a hundred births/a thousand births/a ten
hundred thousand births/many hundred births/ many thousand births/many ten
hundred thousand births/there/ thus was my name/thus was my clan/thus was
caste/thus was my food/thus was I experienced the happiness and unhappiness/thus
was the end of life/He/from there/passed away/was born here/ Thus/with such
manner/with such indicate/many former dwelling places/recollects/through this/I
know this/ as eternal is the self and world/and barren/standing erect/firmly fixed/ those
same beings are running through/wandering/passing away/borning/existing as an
eternal

This /bhikkhus/is the first reason/where/having been approached/having been
focused/some recluses and Brahmins/ are eternalists/as eternal is the self and world
proclaimed.