MahāvaggavaggaBrahmacariyakathā

Abhidhammapiṭaka · Kathāvatthu · Vol. 37 · Section 269

[269] "Is there the living of the holy life (brahmacariyavāsa) among humans?" "There is [a place] where there is; there is [a place] where there is not." "Is it that in the border countries there is [a place] where there is and [a place] where there is not the living of the holy life — among milakkhas (barbarians), among those without understanding, where there is no going of bhikkhus, bhikkhunīs, male lay followers (upāsaka), and female lay followers (upāsikā) — and that in the middle countries there is [a place] where there is and [a place] where there is not the living of the holy life?" "It should not be said thus."

English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.