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scorpions, rats, or wall lizards. I might have killed mad dogs or foxes. I might have derived pleasure in doing sinful activities related to the five immobiles like earth, water, fire, air, and plants, or felt more pride or considered myself fortunate in that. I might have worked on, or constructed machines, like ships and steamers. I might have made cocks, rams, dogs, buffaloes, or bulls fight among themselves, or might not have separated them on seeing them fighting and enjoyed the fight as if it were a game. I might have instigated children or men to fight, gotten them beaten, or dragged them into the court or king's court. I might have wished for victory or defeat for anyone of the two countries at war or kept the mind always engaged in news of the war, or thought that it would be advantageous to my business if the war were to last longer. I might have wished for famine greedily, expecting the prices to rise, or have wished for the death of cattle. I might have thought of suicide, or caused deaths by doing such deeds or inventing such means as would encourage someone to commit suicide. I might have gone to see someone being hanged, or wished that he be hanged soon.
I might also have bound mobile living beings very tightly or held them in smaller cages, beaten such beings cruelly, or cut animals' limbs like ear, nose, and tail, etc., or overburdened them beyond their capacity, or obstructed the supply of food and water to them. As a butcher, I might have tied and harassed innocent five- sensed beings like sheep, goats, buffaloes, and cows, etc., and cut out their throats. As a fowler, I might have entrapped birds like pigeons, and sparrows etc., gunned them down, cut off their wings, or dipped them in hot water. As a hunter, I might have ensnared animals like deer and rabbits and distressed, cut, or killed them. As a fisherman, I might have caught fish by spreading my net and then drying them by spreading them on the ground. Born in low wild tribes, I might have hunted or distressed mobile beings, or cut off their limbs, or beaten them with stick. As a judge or preacher, I might have killed some being. As a follower of those who sacrifice animals to please the gods, I might have offered the sacrifice of sheep, goats, buffaloes, etc. As a police officer, I might have starved, hanged, killed, or thrown people into prison. Born as torturer in hell, I might have beaten and harassed people in hell. I might, as a blacksmith, or a goldsmith, have lighted a furnace to melt metal, or to shape my wares. As a lime-maker, I might have lighted a lime-furnace. As a potter, I might have baked pots in a furnace. As an oil man, I might have crushed sesame and other oil seeds. As a farmer, I might have ploughed the farm, opened the layers of the earth, starved the bullocks, and goaded them with a spike. I might have rooted out stumps of crops, grown grass-strips for cattle-grazing, crushed or encouraged the crushing of sugar-cane, grain plants, or made some card cotton pods. As a corn-popper, I might have popped corn. As a confectioner, I might have kept the stoves burning day and night. As a dyer, I might have lighted fire to make the colors fast. As a carpenter, I might have cut or had trees cut down. As a king, I might have waged bloody battles, and tyrannized the subjects. As a physician, I might have given medicines involving violence to microorganism or worms. I might have caused pain and suffering by conducting experiments on animals, and prescribed drugs and diets which would have non-vegetarian products. As a sailor, I might have killed aquatic beings. As a woman, I might have thought of killing the co-wife or stepson. As a cruel animal like a lion, tiger, leopard, cheetah, dog, cat, hawk, kite, snake, lizard, spider, or a scorpion, I might have committed violence to other beings. TRUTHFULNESS I reflect on and confess the wrongdoings concerning the gross abstention form lie which is the second vow. If I have been guilty of wrongdoings related to it, then I request to be forgiven and my sins nullified. I might have uttered suddenly and thoughtlessly such words that would shock or distress the other person; or exposed the personal matters concerning a man and his wife, or revealed their blemishes, or changed the date in a bill of exchange due to the rise or fall in the exchange rate; or written a false letter to call a dear one under the pretext of illness.
