Gaina sutras

SR No.: 020334
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Hermann Jacobi
Publisher: Clarendon Perss
Publication Year: 1884
Total Pages: 385
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 15 MB

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BOOK II, LECTURE II.
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A monk or a nun should not ease nature in woods of Asana', Sana?, Dhâtakis, Ketaki“, Mango, Asoka, Punnâga, or other such-like places which contain leaves, flowers, fruits, seeds, or sprouts. (21)
A monk or a nun should take their own chamberpot or that of somebody else, and going apart with it, they should ease nature in a secluded place where no people pass or see them, and which is free from eggs or living beings, &c.; then taking the chamber-pot), they should go to a secluded spot, and leave the excrements there on a heap of ashes, &c. (see II, 1, 1, $ 2).
This is the whole duty, &c. Thus I say. (22)
ELEVENTH LECTURES. A monk or a nun should not resolve to go where they will hear sounds of a Mridanga, Nandîmridanga, or Ghallarie, or any such-like various sounds of drums. (1)
If a monk or a nun hear any sounds, viz. of the Vînâ, Vipamki, Vadvîsaka, Tunaka, Panaka, Tumbavînikâ, or Dhamkuna, they should not resolve to go where they will hear any such-like various sounds of stringed instruments. (2)
The same precepts apply to sounds of kettledrums, viz. of the Tâla, Lattiyâ, Gohiyâ?, or Kirikiriyâ; (3)
1 Terminalia Tomentosa.
2 Crotolaria Juncea. 8 Grislea Tomentosa.
4 Pandanus Odoratissimus, 5 Saddasattikkayam. Lecture on Sounds. 6 These are different kinds of drums.
? Lattiyâ and gohiyâ would be in Sanskrit lattikâ and godhikâ; both words are names of lizards.