dn27:22.0 11. The Circle of Brahmins
dn27:22.1 Then some of those same beings thought,
dn27:22.2 ‘Oh, how wicked things have appeared among beings, in that stealing is found, and blaming and lying and the taking up of rods and banishment!
dn27:22.3 Why don’t we set aside bad, unskillful things?’
dn27:22.4 So that’s what they did.
dn27:22.5 ‘They set aside bad, unskillful things’ is the meaning of ‘brahmin’, the first term applied to them.
dn27:22.6 They built leaf huts in a wilderness region where they meditated pure and bright, without lighting cooking fires or digging the soil. They came down at daybreak for breakfast and at dusk for supper to the village, town, or royal capital seeking a meal.
dn27:22.7 When they had obtained food they continued to meditate in the leaf huts.
dn27:22.8 When people noticed this they said,
dn27:22.9 ‘These beings build leaf huts in a wilderness region where they meditate pure and bright, without lighting cooking fires or digging the soil. They come down at daybreak for breakfast and at dusk for supper to the village, town, or royal capital seeking a meal.
dn27:22.10 When they have obtained food they continue to meditate in the leaf huts.’
dn27:22.11 ‘They meditate’ is the meaning of ‘meditator’, the second term applied to them.


