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## Second Objective
**Actions of the previous healers:** 1. **Āmarjana** - rubbing with hands, 2. **Mardana** - pressing with hands, 3. **Mālisha** - with oil etc., 4. **Ubtana** - with lodha etc., 5. **Prakṣālana** - with purified water, 6. **Raṅgana** - with henna etc.
**Actions of the healers of wounds etc.:** 1. Cutting with a weapon and after cutting, 2. Draining pus and blood and after draining, 3. Washing with purified water and after washing, 4. Applying ointment and after applying, 5. Massaging with oil etc. and after massaging, 6. Perfuming with fragrant substances.
From Sutra number 16 to 69, there are a total of 54 Sutras on the atonement for bodily actions. The commentator has explained the meaning of these Sutras as follows: "One should understand that there is permission to perform these actions due to a cause, and atonement for performing them without a cause." However, there are 6 Sutras for wounds and 6 Sutras for wounds etc. Why is atonement mentioned in these 12 Sutras even though the cause is clear?
In response to this question, the commentator says: "Knowing that the disease is caused by the unbearable, one should remain happy with a compassionate heart and endure it with equanimity, but one should not engage in contemplation or meditative state. The Jina-kalpi Grama-rananta remain in this state. However, when the pain becomes unbearable for the sthavira-kalpi, they perform these actions for the following reasons: 1. To avoid the severance of the meaning of the Sutra, 2. For the sake of a disciplined life, 3. To attain death with a meditative state, and 4. To increase knowledge, vision, character, and penance. This is called "performing with a cause."
1. Performing these actions without considering endurance etc., 2. Without aiming to increase capacity, 3. Performing these actions out of mere habit due to ordinary reasons is called "performing without a cause." This is the expectation behind this atonement rule.
Three verses indicating this meaning are as follows:
**Nikkāraṇe ṇ kappati, gaṇḍādīesu chēa-dhūvaṇādī | Āsajja kāraṇaṁ puṇa, so chēva gamo havayi tattha || 1507**
**Cupatitaṁ dukkhaṁ, abhibhūto veyaṇāe tivvāe | Addīṇo avvahiyo, taṁ dukkhaṁ ahiyaasae sammāṁ || 1508 ||**
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**Avvochchittiṇimittaṁ, jīvaṭṭhie samāhiheḍaṁ vā | Pamajjaṇādi tu pade, jayanaae samāyare bhikkhū || 1509 || Ni. Chū.**
In the Nisītha Sutra, objective 13 states that if one performs medical treatment without a disease [before or after a disease], then atonement is required. From its implications, it also emerges that the sthavira-kalpi, considering their meditative state, can perform actions of treatment and bodily actions, if necessary, with gradual discernment, based on the meaning of the Gīta and the meaning of the Gīta. The decision regarding exceptional circumstances is made in accordance with the principles of the Gīta.