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[Essential Sutra]
I renounce the use and consumption of all objects, except those that have been measured, such as: applying sandalwood paste, smelling flowers, wearing ornaments, burning incense, drinking milk and other beverages, eating rice, wheat, etc., lentils, milk products (milk, yogurt, ghee, jaggery, etc.), vegetables, sweet juices, chewing, drinking water, cardamom, cloves, etc. (items that make the mouth fragrant), riding horses, elephants, chariots, etc., wearing shoes, etc., beds, etc., consuming objects with sentience, and all other remaining objects.
There are two types of use and consumption: food-related and karma-related (the trades that lead to the acquisition of food). There are five types of food-related use and consumption and fifteen types of karma-related use and consumption, making a total of twenty transgressions of this vow. I criticize them as follows:
If I have consumed: 1. more than the prescribed amount of objects with sentience, 2. gum, etc., attached to sentient trees, etc., 3. uncooked food, 4. half-cooked food, 5. trivial medicine, and if I have engaged in fifteen karma-related activities, then I criticize them and wish that all my sins be nullified.
_ Objects used once, such as food, are counted as consumption, and objects used repeatedly, such as clothes, are counted as use. The occupations or businesses that lead to the binding of intense karma are karma-related activities. There are fifteen of them, and their meaning is as follows:
1. **Angarakarma:** Making charcoal from wood, working as a blacksmith, potter, goldsmith, cobbler, and brick-maker is called 'Angarakarma'.
2. **Vanakarma:** Selling unchopped or chopped leaves, flowers, or fruits of plants, or working as a miller or grinder is called 'Vanajivica'.
3. **Shaktakarma:** Making, getting made, driving, and selling carts, wagons, or their parts is called 'Shakatjivica'.
_ 4. **Bhatakkarma:** Loading goods on carts, oxen, buffaloes, donkeys, camels, mules, etc., and earning a living by charging rent for them is called 'Bhatakjivica'.
5. **Sphotkarma:** Earning a living by digging ponds, wells, stepwells, etc., and breaking and shaping stones, etc., which are acts of great violence towards the earth, is called 'Sphotjivica'.
1. Cutting and selling grass and wood from the forest.
2. Digging up and selling minerals from the earth.