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savoury stuff, clothes, utensils, blankets, and brooms (are available in our monastery every day). You may visit our monastery (to get these if you like). You might have obtained your alms or not, and you might have had your meals or not, and you may take any path - straight or winding, (you would be welcome there). You may continue to observe the rules of conduct prescribed by your own faith." If, after accepting this invitation, a muni happened to go there, and was offered a meal or was invited for a meal or was offered any service, he should decline and should not give the least attention to it. I say so.
असम्मायार-पदं ३. इहमेगेसि आयार-गोयरे णो सुणिसंते भवति, ते इह आरंभट्ठी
अणुवयमाणा हणमाणा, घायमाणा, हणतो यावि समणुजाणमाणा। Asammāyara -padam 3. Ihamegesiṁ āyāra-goyare no suņisaṁte bhavati, te
iha āraṁbhatthi anuvayamāṇā hanamanā ghāyamāna,
hanato yāvi samanujānamanā. Improper Conduct
There are some monks who are not well-instructed in the discipline of right conduct. They indulge in violence (connected with preparation) and endorse such actions. Not only do they themselves kill (living beings), but they cause others to do so and approve of it.
४. अदुवा अदिन्नमाइयंति। 4. Aduvā adinnamāiyamti.
Or they are guilty of adatta (i.e. the mental attitude and the act of taking away things or objects belonging to other people, including their life).
ANNOTATION 4, The taking of life of other beings is "adatta''. A killer is not only guilty of causing violence to
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