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भगवती सूत्रम् सः ७
These sixteen lapses caused by a donor accrue to a monk. As to the sixteen lapses called utpädana, we have the following :
धाई दुई णिमित्त आजीव वाणिमगे तिगिच्छाय । कोहे माणे माया लोहे य हवति दस ए ए॥१ पुव्विंपच्छासंथव विज्जा मंते य चुण्ण जोगे य।
उपायणाइ दोसा सोलसमे मूलकम्मे य ॥२ They are : To earn food (livelihood) by serving as an attendant maid, as an intelligence (espionage) woman, or as an astrologer, by declaring one's caste and lineage, by extolling a particular sect to its followers, by administering herbs and medicines, by submission to passions, by praising the donor before and after receiving food, by stealing through the application of occult powers or by the display of some magic or acrobatic feats, and last but not least, by helping a woman to gain pregnancy or in abortion. The monk alone is responsible for these lapses. As to the ten faults accruing from the search for food called eșaņā, we have the following couplet :
संक्यिमक्खियणिखित्त पिहियसाहरियदायगुम्मीसे।
अपरिणयलित्तछड्डिए एसणदोसा दस हवंति ॥ (1) Sankiya means that there is doubt about there being some fault.
(2) Makkhiya means that the hand, spoon or laddle with which the food is to be given to a monk has touched some live object.
(3) Nikkitta means that the food which is going to be offered has been placed on some live object.
(4) Pihiya means that the food which is going to be offered has been covered by something which contains live object.
(5) Sahariya means the use of an unclean pot for the storage of food which is going to be offered.
(6) Dāyaga means the offer of food by children who do not have the proper authority to give.
