iti48:0.1So It Was Said 48
iti48:0.2The Book of the Twos
iti48:0.3Chapter Two
iti48:0.4Bound for Loss
iti48:1.1This was said by the Buddha, the Perfected One: that is what I heard.
iti48:2.1“Mendicants, these two are bound for a place of loss, bound for hell, if they don’t give up this fault.
iti48:2.2What two?
iti48:2.3Someone who is unchaste, but claims to be chaste; and someone who makes a groundless accusation of unchastity against a person whose chastity is pure.
iti48:2.4These are the two who are bound for a place of loss, bound for hell, if they don’t give up this fault.”
iti48:2.5The Buddha spoke this matter.
iti48:2.6On this it is said:
iti48:3.1“A liar goes to hell,
iti48:3.2as does one who denies what they did.
iti48:3.3Both are equal in the hereafter,
iti48:3.4those men of base deeds.
iti48:4.1Many who wear a scrap of ocher cloth
iti48:4.2are unrestrained and wicked.
iti48:4.3Being wicked, they are reborn in hell
iti48:4.4due to their bad deeds.
iti48:5.1It’d be better for the immoral and unrestrained
iti48:5.2to eat an iron ball,
iti48:5.3scorching, like a burning flame,
iti48:5.4than to eat the nation’s alms.”
iti48:6.1This too is a matter that was spoken by the Blessed One: that is what I heard.