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The rugged and popular language of these stanzas which reject speculation as much as luxury, takes us back to the life of the wanderers who followed the Buddha on his tours and we may imagine that poems like the Dhaniya sutta would be recited when they met together in a rest-house or grove set apart for their use on the outskirts of a village.
For the rules of discipline Upâli was the chief authority and we read how he was asked where such and such a rule—for instance, the commandment against stealing—was promulgated. "At Râjagaha, sir." "Concerning whom was it spoken?" "Dhaniya, the potter's son." "In regard to what matter?" "The taking of that which had not been given."
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