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Dhammapada · Chapter 19: The Just

Dhammapada 19.266

translated from Pāli by F. Max Müller, 1881

A man is not a mendicant (Bhikshu) simply because he asks others for alms; he who adopts the whole law is a Bhikshu, not he who only begs.

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