nking liquors,
causing others to drink, or sanctioning the acts of those who drink.[9]

204. Q. _To what are we told that drunkenness leads?_

A. To demerit, crime, insanity, and ignorance--which is the chief
cause of rebirth.

205. Q. _What does Buddhism teach about marriage?_

A. Absolute chastity being a condition of full spiritual development,
is most highly commended; but a marriage to one wife and fidelity to
her is recognised as a kind of chastity. Polygamy was censured by the
Buddha as involving ignorance and promoting lust.

206. Q. _In what discourse?_

A. The _Anguttara Nik[=a]ya_, Chapter iv, 55.

207. Q. _What does it teach as to the duty of parents to children?_

A. They should restrain them from vice, train them in virtue; have
them taught arts and sciences; provide them with suitable wives and
husbands, and give them their inheritance.

208. Q. What is the duty of children?

A. To support their parents when old or needy; perform family duties
incumbent on them; guard their property; make themselves worthy to be
their heirs, and when they are gone, honour their memory.

209. Q. _What of pupils to the teacher?_

A. To show him respect; minister to him; obey him; supply his wants;
attend to his instruction.

210. Q. _What of husband to wife?_

A. To cherish her; treat her with respect and kindness; be faithful to
her; cause her to be honoured by others; provide her with suitable
ornaments and clothes.

211. Q. _What of the wife to her husband?_

A. To show affection to him; order her household aright; be hospitable
to guests; be chaste; be thrifty; show skill and diligence in all
things.

212. Q. Where are these precepts taught?

A. In the Sig[=a]lov[=a]da Sutta.

213. Q. Do riches help a man to future happiness?

A. The Dhammapada says: "One is the road that leads to wealth, another
the road that leads to Nirv[=a]na."

214. Q. Does that mean that no rich man can attain Nirv[=a]na?

A. That depends on which he loves most. If he uses his wealth for the
benefit of mankind--for the suffering, the oppressed, the
ignorant--then his wealth aids him to acquire merit.

215. Q. But if the contrary?

A. But if he loves and greedily hoards money for the sake of its
possession, then it weakens his moral sense, prompts him to crime,
brings curses upon him in this life, and their effects are felt in the
next birth.

216. Q. _What says the "Dhammapad