Sippāni dassessāma, lābhaṃ lacchāma, sotthinā caṇḍāla-vaṃsā orohissāma

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Chapter One: An old caṇḍāla acrobat and his teenage trainee talk to a one-year-old Bodhisattva boy who will learn to perform stunts in the guise of a girl named Medakathālikā.

Chapter Two: Kaṇṭaka, a sāmaṇera (novice monk), tells a bhikkhuṇī (nun) about his bisexuality.

The title is Pāḷi and means "We'll exhibit stunts, we'll receive income, safely we'll dismount the acrobat's pole!" These words come from Sedakasutta in the Buddhist canon (Suttapiṭaka : Saṃyuttanikāya : Satipaṭṭhānasaṃyuttam : Nālandāvagga : ninth sūtra), in which Medakathālikā is a character with a masculine gender and feminine name. Kaṇṭaka and his sexual partners are also characters from the Buddhist canon (Vinayapiṭaka : Mahāvagga).

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