ABSTRACT
COMMUNAL LIFE AT AN .l V .i 8 AWe have observed in Chapter III that it was usual for a
person after he had renounced the household for the 8ake of religious life to Beek admittance to a Gana or Sangha of Paribrijakas, acknowledging its leader 89 his spiritual master ( Sat t hi) . The admittanoe into the Buddhist Sangha was called U p a 8 amp & d i .. Upasampadi might be sought by one who had previously been a ParibrijaksJ .belonging to a different sect, or one who wanted straightway to pass into the Buddhist Sangha from house-.hold life.
