One can figure out that, contrary to the admonition mentioned in Ryoiiki, the actual life style of laypersons was applicable to Sessho-kai (the Buddhist precept of the prohibition of killing living things indiscriminately).
また、『霊異記』の警告に反し、実際の俗人の生活様式が殺生戒と無縁ではなかったこともわかる。