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7. Purity in Speech
and of feeling (would result from it]. 14. Therefore, a thoughtful [monk] should not call a man: "you loon", "you lout", "you dog", "you sūdra”, “beggar”, “miserable one". 15. [A woman should be called] "revered one”, “most revered one”, "[my] mother”, “sister of [my] mother”, “sister of [my] father”, “[my] sister", "[my] daughter", or "[my] granddaughter", 16."my friend”, “annā”, “[my] mistress”, "mylady", "your honour”; [a monk] should not call her: "you loon", "you lout", "you sūdrā”. 17. He may call [her] by her name or by (that of] her gotra [and] speak unto her in either a few or many words, paying [her] his respect according to her deserts. 18. (A man should be called] "revered one", "most revered" one, "[my] father”, “[my] uncle", "[my] nephew", "[my] grandson”, 19. “my dear”, "dear friend”, "annā", "Sir", "mylord", "your honour”; [a monk] should not call him: "you loon", "you lout", "you sūdra”. 20 he may call [him)... (etc. as 17, but him instead of her)....
21. As long as a monk does not know whether a higher animal is a male or a female, he should [simply] speak of it as a creature.
22. Further, [a monk] should not say of a man, a quadruped, a bird, or a snake: "He (it) is big [and] fat [and] fit to be killed [and] cooked”. 23. He should say: "he (it) is of increased bulk, [his (its) body) is well grown, he (it) has attained a sizable shape”. 24. In this manner, a thoughtful [monk] should not say: "[these] cows should be milked, tamed, [or] covered, they are fit to draw a waggon [or] a car". 25. He should say: -"this is a young bull”, “this is a milk cow”, [or] he should say that he (she) is small or large, and that he (she) is a draught-animal. 26. Likewise, a thoughtful [monk], when having gone into a garden, on hills, or in woods, and having seen there big trees, should not speak as follows: 27. "[These trees) are fit for pillars in palaces, for gates, houses, bars, bolts, boats, buckets, 28. stools, trays, ploughs, coverings (of seeds in the ground), poles sin machines), naves [of wheels], [or] tool-chests. 29. [Out of this tree) might be [made) a seat, a bed, a car, or any [other] thing in a house”: such speech which does harm to living beings, a thoughtful [monk] should not utter. 30. A thoughtful [monk].... (etc. as
