3. Not to commit adultery.
4. Not to tell lies.
5. Not to indulge in intoxicating drinks; or the Buddhist warning against the ten sins; three of the body—taking life, theft, adultery; four of speech—lying, slander, abuse, and vain conversation; three of the mind—covetousness, malice, and scepticism.
It saw also that Confucian writings embraced its fifty precepts[9] detailed under the five different secular relationships of
1. Parents and children.
2. Pupils and teachers.
3. Husbands and wives.
4. Friends and companions.
5. Masters and servants.
Our early Buddhists therefore did not see why they should try to suppress the existing Confucian moral code and supplant it with their own which breathed the same spirit, only because it had not grown on Indian soil.