Gaina Sûtras, Part I: The Âkârânga and Kalpa Sûtras — SBE Vol. 22 (trans. Hermann Jacobi, 1884)

(see II, 1, 1, § 2).

This is the whole duty, &c.

Thus I say. (22)

Eveventy Lecture’.

A monk or a nun should not resolve to go where they will hear sounds of a Mvzdanga, Nandtmridanga, or Géallart*, or any such-like various sounds of drums. (1) .

If a monk or a nun hear any sounds, viz. of the Vind, Vipamét, Vadvisaka, Tuzaka, Pazaka, Tumbavizika, or Dhamkuza, they should not resolve to go where they will hear any such-like various sounds of stringed instruments. (2)

The same precepts apply to sounds of kettledrums, viz. of the T4la, Lattiy4, Gohiya’, or Kirikiriya ; (3)

? Terminalia Tomentosa. * Crotolaria Juncea.

5 Grislea Tomentosa. . “ Pandanus Odoratissimus.

® Saddasattikkayam. Lecture on Sounds.

* These are different kinds of drums.

7 Lattiya and gohiy4 would be in Sanskrit lattika and godhik&; both words are names of lizards. -

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Also to sounds of wind instruments, viz. the conch, flute, Kharamukht, or Piripiriy4. (4)

A! monk or a nun should not, for the sake of
hearing sounds, go to walls or ditches, &c. (see II,
3, 3, §§ 1 and 2); (5)

Nor to marshes, pasture grounds, thickets, woods, strongholds in woods, mountains, strongholds in mountains ; (6)

Nor to villages, towns, markets, or a capital, hermitages, cities, halting-places for caravans; (7)

Nor to gardens, parks, woods, forests, temples, assembly halls, wells; (8)

Nor to towers, pathways, doors, or town gates; (9)

Nor where three or four roads meet, nor to courtyards or squares; (10)

Nor to stables (or nests) of buffaloes, cattle, horses, elephants, &c. (see 10, § 12); (11)

Nor to places where buffaloes, bulls, horses, &c., fight; (12)

Nor to places where herds of cattle, horses, or elephants are kept; (13)

Nor to places where story-tellers or acrobats perform, or where continuously story-telling, dramatical plays, singing, music, performance on the Vi, beating of time, playing on the Tarya, clever playing on the Paéaha is going on; (14)

Nor to places where quarrels, affrays, riots, conflicts between two kingdoms, anarchical or revolutionary disturbances occur; (15)

* The beginning, ‘If a monk or a nun hear particular sounds somewhere, viz.,’ and the end, ‘they should not resolve to go to suchlike or other places for the sake of hearing sounds,’ are in the text repeated in all, §§ 5-16. In the translation the text has been somewhat abridged.

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Nor to places where a young well-attended girl, well-attired and well-ornamented, is paraded, or where somebody is led to death. (16)

A monk or a nun should not, for the sake of hearing sounds, go to places where there are many great temptations', viz. where many cars, chariots, Mleéé£&as, or foreigners meet. (17)

(16)

A monk or a nun should not, for the sake of hearing sounds, go to places where there are many great temptations', viz. where many cars, chariots, Mleéé£&as, or foreigners meet. (17)

A monk or a nun should not, for the sake of hearing sounds, go to great festivals where women or men, old, young, or middle-aged ones are welldressed and ornamented, sing, make music, dance, laugh, play, sport, or give, distribute, portion or parcel out plenty of food, drink, dainties, and spices. (18)

A monk or anun should not like or love, desire for, or be enraptured with, sounds of this or the other world, heard or unheard ones, seen or unseen ones.

This is the whole duty, &c.

Thus I say. (19)

TweELrTH LEcTURE,

If a monk or a nun see various colours (or forms), viz. in wreaths, dressed images, dolls, clothes*, woodwork, plastering, paintings, jewelry, ivory-work, strings, leaf-cutting, they should not for the sake of pleasing the eye resolve to go where they will see various colours (or forms). All that has been saidp. 186 in the last chapter with regard to sounds should be repeated here with regard to colours (or forms); only the passages on music are to be omitted. (1)

1 Mah4sava, mah4srava. The word has probably here the original meaning, conflux ; or mah4sava is a mistake for mahosava, which would be identical with mahussava, great festivals, in the next paragraph.

* I have translated the last four words, gamthimami, vedhim4ni, pirim4ni, samghâtim4zi, according to the commentary. Later on I shall translate them garlands, ribbons, scarfs, and sashes.

THIRTEENTH LECTURE.

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

One should neither be pleased with nor prohibit it};

If another (i.e. a householder) wipes [or rubs] the mendicant’s feet ; (1)

If he kneads or strokes them ; (2)

If he touches or paints them; (3)

If he smears or anoints them with oil, ghee, or marrow ; (4)

If he rubs or shampoos them with Lodhra, ground drugs, powder, or dye; (5)

If he sprinkles or washes them with hot or cold water ; (6)

If he rubs or anoints them with any sort of ointment; (7)

If he perfumes or fumigates them with any sort of incense; (8)

If he extracts or removes a splinter or thorn from them; (9)

If he extracts or removes pus or blood from them. (10)

If he wipes or rubs the mendicant’s body, &c.?
(see §§ 2-8 down to) if he perfumes or fumigates
it with any sort of incense. (11)

If he wipes or rubs a wound in (the mendicant’s)

' In the text these words are repeated after each Sfttra in §§ 1-10. * The text gives the whole in extenso.

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body (&c.', down to) if he sprinkles or washes it with hot or cold water; (12)

If he cuts or incises it with any sharp instrument; if after having done so, he extracts or removes pus or blood from it. (13)

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body (&c.', down to) if he sprinkles or washes it with hot or cold water; (12)

* The text gives the whole in extenso.

If he cuts or incises it with any sharp instrument; if after having done so, he extracts or removes pus or blood from it. (13)

If he wipes or rubs a boil, a‘ scess, ulcer, or fistula (&c.1, down to) if he cuts or incises it with any sharp instrument; if after having done so, he extracts or removes pus or blood from it; (14) .

If he removes, or wipes off, the sweat and uncleanliness on his body ; (15)

If he removes, or wipes off, the dirt of his eyes, ears, teeth, or nails. (16)

If he cuts or dresses the long hair of his head or his brows or his armpits; (17)

If he removes, or wipes off, the nit or lice from his head. (18)

One should neither be pleased with nor prohibit it, if the other, sitting in the Anka or Paryanka posture, wipes or rubs (the mendicant’s) feet; in this way the §§ 1-18 should be repeated here. (19)

One should neither be pleased with nor prohibit it, if the other, sitting in the Anka or Paryanka posture, fastens or ties a necklace of many or less strings, a necklace hanging down over the breast, a collar, a diadem, a garland, a golden string ; (20)

If the other leading him to, or treating him in, a garden or a park, wipes or rubs (the mendicant’s) feet, &c. (all as above); similarly with actions done reciprocally. (21)

One should neither be pleased with nor prohibit it, if the other tries to cure him by pure charms ;

1 The text gives the whole in extenso as in § 11.

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If the other tries to cure him by impure charms ;

If he tries to cure him, digging up and cutting, for the sake of a sick monk, living bulbs, roots, rind, or sprouts. (22)

For sensation is the result of former actions; all sorts of living beings experience sensation.

This is the whole duty, &c.

Thus I say. (23)

FourTEENTH LECTURE.

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

A mendicant should not be pleased with nor prohibit it, if (he and the other) wipe or rub each other's feet, &c.

In this way the whole Thirteenth Lecture should be repeated here.

This is the whole duty, &c.

Thus I say. (1)

End of the Second Part, called the Seven
Lectures.

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THIRD PART.

FIFTEENTH LECTURE,

CALLED

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