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vital organs are deteriorated.
37. Desiring one's own good, one should reject the four vices, viz., wrath, vanity, fraud and greed which cause sin to grow.
38. Wrath destroys affection, vanity destroys politeness, fraud takes away friends and greed destroys everything.
39. Wrath he should subdue by forgiveness, vanity he should conquer by humbleness, fraud by straightforwardness, and greed he should vanquish through contentment.
45. A monk should sit by the side of his teacher after bringing the hands, feet and the body under control, subduing the sense-organs and becoming attentive.
46. In the presence of his teacher, he should neither sit putting one thigh over the other, nor by the side, in the front or to the back of the ácárya.
47. He should neither speak unasked, nor interrupt another speaking. He should avoid backbiting and clever falsehood.
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48. One should never utter words which create distrust, which readily provoke another, or which injure the feelings of another.
50. A monk should not laugh at one who is proficient in the Ayára2 and Pannatti,2 or who has studied the Ditthivaya2 even if the latter make a mistake in recitation.
1. चिट्ठमंसं खायद = Skt. पृटुमांसं खादति It is an idiom and lueans_‘to backbito' / प्राक् पादयो: पतति खादति पृष्टमांसम् Hitopadesa I 81.
2. According to the commentator, Haribhadra, these epithets refer to a proficiency in Grammar.
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