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The WHEEL Publication No. 14
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Second Impression 1966
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TITLE OF WORK: Everyman's Ethics:
Four Discourses of the Buddha (WHEEL #14)
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AUTHOR: Narada Mahathera, trans.
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Errata
The following changes were
deliberately made to the original text in preparing this edition:
1. VYAGGHAP.TXT, in the
"Conditions of Worldy Progress":
fire would not burn it, water
would not carry it away, ill-disposed heirs remove it.
CHANGED TO
fire would not burn it, water would not carry it away, NOR
ill-disposed heirs remove it.
2. VYAGGHAP.TXT, in the
"Conditions of Worldy Progress":
debauchery, drunkenness, gambling,
friendship, companionship and intimacy with evil-doers.
CHANGED TO
(i) Debauchery, (ii) drunkenness, (iii) gambling, (iv)
friendship, companionship and intimacy with evil-doers.
(Similar change two paragraphs
later)