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CHAPTER THREE pleasure, garrulity, bad gestures, 362 love are connected with purposeless injury.
The evil activity of body, voice, and speech, want of zeal, not keeping (sāmāyika) in mind are prescribed (as transgressions) in the sāmāyika-vow.
Employment of a servant, 363 having something brought (from outside), throwing out of matter, 364 consequences of sound and form 365 (are transgressions) of the vow of time and place.
Not having inspected and cleaned (the bare ground for) excretions, things accepted, and covers, want of zeal, no earnest thought (are transgressions) of the pausadha-vow.366
Throwing something into something with life, covering with something with life,367 transgression of time, 368 anger,369 pretext of some one else 370 are prescribed in the fourth disciplinary vow. Cherishing the vows devoid of these transgressions, even a layman, pure-minded, is freed from the bondage of existence."
After hearing the Lord's sermon, many became mendicants; many became laymen. Certainly the speech of the Arhat is not fruitless.
Aśvasena, enlightened, gave his kingdom to his son,
362 349. Gestures to produce love. 363 351. To do something not permitted for him to do himself. 364 351, E.g., bricks, wood, etc. for other people to use.
365 351. While staying in the prescribed space, he summons others by a cough, etc. and lets them see him.
366 352. When the layman lives like a sādhu.
367 353. He throws something that should be given into something with life, or covers it with something with life, so the sādhus will not accept it.
368 353. He sets a time after the usual time for sādhus to take alms, or he eats before that time.
369 353. He is angry at being asked for something and does not give it, even if he has it; or, he gives something from jealousy because some one else has given so much. In that case, he acquires no merit.
370 353. He pretends that something belongs to some one else, so he can not give it.
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