Enveloped in darkness, Slaves to craving that leads them on, Filling the dreaded cemeteries, They receive another life.’ It’s by speaking like this, it seems, that I’m abusing and reviling the venerable lay followers who have faith and confidence, and that I’m destroying their confidence. At another time when the Buddha was staying at Rājagaha in the Bamboo Grove, the royal court was seated together in the royal compound, having the following conversation, ‘Gold, silver, and money are allowable for the Sakyan monastics; and receive gold, silver, and money.’ On that occasion the chief Maṇicūlaka was sitting in that gathering.