Just then a former judge who had gone forth with the monks was sitting near the Buddha. The Buddha said to him, “For stealing how much does King Bimbisāra beat, imprison, or banish a thief?” “For stealing a <i lang='pi' translate='no'>pāda</i> coin, sir, or the value of a <i lang='pi' translate='no'>pāda</i>.” At that time in Rājagaha a <i lang='pi' translate='no'>pāda</i> coin was worth five <i lang='pi' translate='no'>māsaka</i> coins. After rebuking Venerable Dhaniya in many ways, the Buddha spoke in dispraise of being difficult to support … “And, monks, this training rule should be recited like this:

Preliminary ruling ‘If a monk, intending to steal, takes what has not been given to him—

the sort of stealing for which kings, having caught a thief, would beat, imprison, or banish him, saying, “You’re a bandit, you’re a fool, you’ve gone astray, you’re a thief”—he too is expelled and excluded from the community.’” In this way the Buddha laid down this training rule for the monks.

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