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Dhammapada · 19.11

Na tena bhikkhu so hoti, yāvatā bhikkhate pare;Vissaṃ dhammaṃ samādāya, bhikkhu hoti na tāvatā.

Na tena bhikkhu so hoti, yavata bhikkhate pare; Vissam dhammam samadaya, bhikkhu hoti na tavata.

One is not a bhikkhu merely by begging from others. Taking up an offensive way of life, one is not by that much a bhikkhu.

— Dhammapada 19.11

Source: Pali text from the Khuddaka Nikāya of the Pali Canon (oldest extant Buddhist scripture, compiled c. 3rd century BCE). Public-domain English readings drawn from F. Max Müller's translation in Sacred Books of the East, Vol X (1881) and the Buddhist Publication Society's freely-licensed Acharya Buddharakkhita rendering.

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