Dasaveyaliya Suttam

SR No.: 022603
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: K V Abhyankar
Publisher: K V Abhyankar
Publication Year: 1938
Total Pages: 190
Language: Sanskrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari & agam_dashvaikalik
File Size: 15 MB

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DASAVEĀLIYA SUTTA
[ Ch. III
CHAPTER III.
The following are the things improper to be practised by great sages who are free from the ties of the world, who have made themselves firm in self-restraint, who are free from possessions and who are the saviours of the people : (1) A thing done purposely for the monk, (2) a thing purchased for the monk, (3) a thing offered by a man who gave invitation, (4) a thing brought in for the monk from a distant place or so, (5) dinner at night, (6) bath, (7) scents and flowers, (8) fan, (9) things stored up (overnight or 80 ), (10) pot of householders, (11) food from the king's place, (12) food given in pursuit of the wish expressed by the mendicant, (13) shampooing, (14) tooth brush, (15) inquiry after health, (16) looking at one's body (in the mirror ), (17) playing at counters, (18) playing at dice, (19) bearing the umbrella when not required, (20) treatment, (21) wearing shoes on the feet, (22) kindling fire, (23) alms from a person from whom one has taken residence, (24) raised seat, (25) couch, (26) sitting in the intervening place of two houses, (27) cleaning the limbs, (28) service of householders, (29) maintenance by family professions, (30) taking water which is not thrice boiled, (31) remembrance of past pleasures when ill, (32) Mülaka vegetable, (33) ginger, (34) sugarcane which is not ripe, (35-36) bulbous roots and ordinary roots which are possessed of living organisms, (37-38) fruits and seeds which are raw, (39) Sauvarchala salt, (40) crystal salt, (41) ordinary salt, (42) Romaka salt, (43) sea-salt, (44) Pāmsu salt, (45) black salt, (46) fuming of clothes, (47) vomiting, (48) use of enema etc., (49) purgatives, (50) collyrium, (51) painting the teeth, (52) anointment of the body, (53) decoration of the body. All these things are not to be practised by the great sages who are free from the ties of the world, who practise selfrestraint and who move as lightly as the wind. (10).