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Commentary on the Chapter on Negligence and So On

81. For the ninth too, the first was spoken on the same occasion. Many monks, it is said, seated in the Teaching hall, referring to Kumbhaghosaka, said: "Such and such a family formerly had little fame and little retinue; now it has become one of great fame and great retinue." The Teacher, having come in the former method itself, having heard their words, began this discourse. Its meaning should be understood by the method already stated above.

82. In the second and so on, "for great harm" means for the sake of great harm. The remainder here is clear in itself.

Commentary on the Chapter on Negligence and So On.