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16 morality?' And they told the matter to the Blessed One.

'Is this true, O Bhikkhus ? '

'It is true, Lord.'

Then he rebuked them, and when he had delivered a religious discourse, he addressed the Bhikkhus, and said:

'Let then the Samgha grant to Dabba the Mallian, whose conscience in respect of this matter is quite clear, the Proceeding for the consciously innocent.

10. 'And thus, O Bhikkhus, is it to be granted.

'Let that Dabba the Mallian go before the Samgha, and having arranged his robe over one shoulder, let him bow down at the feet of the senior Bhikkhus, and crouching down, let him stretch