Chapter 22. The Woeful State
Verse 2
Global verse #307
Many ‘yellow-necks’ (i.e., wearers of the yellow robe)18 are of bad qualities (or: of an evil disposition) and uncontrolled. These bad people, on account of their bad deeds, arise (after death) in a state of woe.
Footnotes
18. A ‘yellow-neck’ (kāsāvakaṇṭha) is a wearer of the yellow robe of the almsman (bhikkhu).