152:--"Buddha made a law forbidding the monks to commit suicide.

He prohibited any one from discoursing on the miseries of life in such a manner as to cause desperation." See also M.B., pp.
464, 465.
(12) Beal says:--"Evil desire; hatred; ignorance." (13) See chap.

xx, note 10.
(14) The Anagamin belong to the third degree of Buddhistic saintship, the third class of Aryas, who are no more liable to be reborn as men, but are to be born once more as devas, when they will forthwith become Arhats, and attain to nirvana.

E.H., pp.

8, 9.
(15) Our author expresses no opinion of his own on the act of this bhikshu.