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be eaten by others at night, nor allow others who eat at night, to do so. As long as I live, I [shall] not eat at night... (etc. as before)... [in repentance). O my Master, I have taken the sixth vow, [concerning) the abstention from eating at night.
These five great vows to which is appended the sixth, viz. [concerning) the abstention from eating at night, I have made my own for my own good.
VII. A monk or a nun, who is self-controlled and abstinent and has renounced bad actions, should not at day- or nighttime, alone or in company with others, sleeping or waking, dig into, scratch, graze or pierce the [level] ground or a slope, a stone or a clod, or his own dusty body or garment with his hand or foot, a wooden stick or a bamboo-stick, his finger, a needle or a handful of needles. He (she) should not cause another monk or nun (to do so), nor allow another monk or nun (to do so). "As long as I live... (etc. as before)... [in repentance]”.
VIII. A monk or a nun.. should not... touch, press, shake more or less violently, or warm or heat flowing water, hoarfrost, snow, fog-moisture, hail, dew or rain-water, or his own wet or damp body of garment. He (she) should not.... [in repentance).
IX. A monk or a nun... should not... kindle, stir up, feed or destroy a fire, a glowing piece of coal, a fire under ashes, a small fire made up from parts of a bigger one, a torch, a' fire-brand, fire burning without fuel or meteoric fire. He(she) should not ... [in repentance].
X. A monk or a nun... should not ... blow or fan his (her) body or any substance outside it with a whisk, a fan, a palmleaf, a leaf of another kind, a branch or a part of all these, a bird's tailor several of these tied together, a garment or its hem, with the hand or with the mouth. He (she) should not ..... [in repentance].
XI. A monk or a nun ... should not ... walk, stand, sit, or lie down on seed-grains, seed-buds, plants in process of development or fully developed, or on layers of these, if they should be living, or on their (wooden] supports, if they should be inhabited by worms. He (she) should not ... [in repentance)
