One should not be pleased with nor prohibit a reciprocal action, which relates to one's self, and produces karman.

FOURTEENTH LECTURE.

One should neither be pleased with nor prohibit the action of another which relates to one's self, and produces karman.

THIRTEENTH LECTURE.

A monk or a nun should not resolve to go where they will hear sounds of a Mridaṅga, Nandîmridaṅga, or Ghallarî 6, or any such-like various sounds of drums. (1)

ELEVENTH LECTURE 5.

A monk or a nun being pressed by nature should, in case they have not their own broom, beg for that of a fellow-ascetic.

TENTH LECTURE 2.

When a monk or a nun wishes to go to a pure place for study,

NINTH LECTURE 1.

SECOND PART.

THE SEVEN LECTURES 1. EIGHTH LECTURE 2.

He may beg for a domicile in a traveller's hall, &c. (see II, 1, 8, § 2), having reflected (on its fitness); he should ask permission to take possession

SECOND LESSON.

FIRST LESSON.

SEVENTH LECTURE,

A monk or a nun, entering the abode of a householder for the sake of alm

SECOND LESSON.

A monk or a nun wanting to get a bowl, may beg for one made of bottle-gourd or

SIXTH LECTURE,

A monk or a nun should beg for acceptable clothes, and wear them in that state in which they get them; they should

SECOND LESSON.

FIRST LESSON.

FIFTH LECTURE,

FOURTH LECTURE,

FIRST LESSON.

THIRD LESSON.

If, on board, the boatman should say to the mendicant, 'O long-lived Sramana! please, take this umbrella, pot, &c. (see II, 2, 3, § 2), hold these various dangerous instruments 1, let this boy or girl drink,' he should not comply with his request, but look on silently. (1)

SECOND LESSON.

FIRST LESSON.

THIRD LECTURE,

'It 1 is difficult to obtain pure, acceptable alms

THIRD LESSON.

SECOND LESSON.

FIRST LESSON.

SECOND LECTURE,

ELEVENTH LESSON.

Some mendicants say unto (others) who follow the same rules of conduct, or live in the same place, or wander from village to village, if they have received agreeable food and another mendicant falls sick

A single mendicant, having collected alms for many, might, without consulting his fellow-ascetics, give them to those whom he list; as this would be sinful, he should not do so

TENTH LESSON.

In the east or west or south or north, there are some faithful householders, &c., (all down to) servants who will speak thus:

NINTH LESSON.

A monk or a nun on a begging-tour should not accept juice of mangos, inspissated juice of mangos, juice of wood-apples, citrons, grapes, wild dates, pomegranates, cocoa-nuts, bamboos, jujubes, myrobalans, tamarinds, or any such-

EIGHTH LESSON.

A monk or a nun on a begging-tour should not accept food, &c., which has been placed on a post or pillar or beam or scaffold or loft 1 or platform or roof or some such-like elevated place; for such

SEVENTH LESSON.

When a monk or a nun on a begging-tour perceives that many hungry animals have met and come together in search of food, e. g. those of the chicken-kind or those of the pig-kind, or that crows

SIXTH LESSON.

When a monk or a nun on entering the abode of a householde

FIFTH LESSON.

A monk or a nun on a begging-tour should not resolve to go to a festival,

FOURTH LESSON.

When he has eaten or drunk at a festive entertainment

THIRD LESSON.

A monk or a nun on a begging-tour should not accept food, &c., in the following case: when, on the eighth or paushadha day, on the beginning of a fortnight,

SECOND LESSON.

FIRST LESSON.

SECOND BOOK FIRST PART 1. FIRST LECTURE, CALLED

The Venerable One was able to abstain from indulgence of the flesh 3, though never attacked by

FOURTH LESSON.

Always well guarded, he bore the pains (caused by) grass, cold, fire, flies, and gnats; manifold pains. (1)

THIRD LESSON.

Whatever different seats and couches have been told,

SECOND LESSON.

As I have heard it,

EIGHTH LECTURE,

To a naked 1 monk the thought occurs:

SEVENTH LESSON.

A mendicant who is fitted out with one robe, and a bowl as second (article),

SIXTH LESSON.

A mendicant who is fitted out with two robes, and a bowl as third (article),

FIFTH LESSON.

A mendicant who is fitted out with three robes 3, and a bowl as fourth (article), will not think: I shall beg

FOURTH LESSON.

Some are awakened as middle-aged men and exert themselves well, having, as clever men, heard and received the word of the learned

THIRD LESSON.

SECOND LESSON.

I say: To friendly or hostile (heretics) one should not give food, drink, dainties and spices, clothes, alms-bowls, and brooms; nor exhort these persons to give (such things), nor do them service, always showing the highest respect.

SEVENTH LECTURE,

Staying in or between

The disciples are thus regularly instructed, day and night,

FOURTH LESSON.

A sage who is well instructed in the law and leads a life of abstinence,

THIRD LESSON.

Though some know the misery of the world, have relinquished their former

SECOND LESSON.

FIRST LESSON.

SIXTH LECTURE,

Some not instructed (in the true law)

SIXTH LESSON.

Thus I say: a lake is full of water, it is in an even plain,

FIFTH LESSON.

For a monk who has not yet reached discrimination

FOURTH LESSON.

Many are not attached to something in this world, they are not attached to it among these (householders).

THIRD LESSON.

Many do not live by injurious deeds against the

SECOND LESSON.

ESSENCE OF THE WORLD.

FIFTH LECTURE,

FOURTH LESSON. One should mortify (one's flesh) in a low, high, and highest degree,

FOURTH LESSON.

THIRD LESSON.

'Reflect and observe that whether you go to this world

There are as many âsravas 1 as there are parisravas,

The Arhats and Bhagavats of the past, present, and futur

FIRST LESSON.

FOURTH LESSON

SECOND LESSON.

Look, Sir, at birth and old age here,

THIRD LECTURE,

The unwise sleep, the sages always wake

SIXTH LESSON.

That for this (viz. pleasure)

FIFTH LESSON.

Then, after a time

THIRD LESSON.

SECOND LESSON.

The wise ones who attain

EIGHTH LESSON

Thus I say

SIXTH LESSON.

FIFTH LESSON 1.

THIRD LESSON 1.

SECOND LESSON 2.

ÂKÂRÂṄGA SÛTRA. FIRST BOOK 1. FIRST LECTURE 2,