75. Lecture 13

1One should neither be pleased with nor prohibit the action of another which relates to one’s self, and produces karman.

2One should neither be pleased with nor prohibit it[1];

3If another (i.e. a householder) wipes [or rubs] the mendicant’s feet; (1)

4If he kneads or strokes them; (2) If he touches or paints them; (3)

5If he smears or anoints them with oil, ghee, or marrow; (4)

6If he rubs or shampoos them with Lodhra, ground drugs, powder, or dye; (5)

7If he sprinkles or washes them with hot or cold water; (6)

8If he rubs or anoints them with any sort of ointment; (7)

9If he perfumes or fumigates them with any sort of incense; (8)

10If he extracts or removes a splinter or thorn from them; (9)

11If he extracts or removes pus or blood from them. (10)

12If he wipes or rubs the mendicant’s body, &c.[2] (see §§ 2-8 down to) if he perfumes or fumigates it with any sort of incense. (11)

13If he wipes or rubs a wound in (the mendicant’s) body (&c.[3], down to) if he sprinkles or washes it with hot or cold water; (12)

14If he cuts or incises it with any sharp instrument; if after having done so, he extracts or removes pus or blood from it. (13)

15If he wipes or rubs a boil, abscess, ulcer, or fistula (&c.[3], 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)

16If he removes, or wipes off, the sweat and uncleanliness on his body; (15)

17If he removes, or wipes off, the dirt of his eyes, ears, teeth, or nails. (16)

18If he cuts or dresses the long hair of his head or his brows or his armpits; (17)

19If he removes, or wipes off, the nit or lice from his head. (18)

20One should neither be pleased with nor prohibit it, if the other, sitting in the Aṅka or Paryaṅka posture, wipes or rubs (the mendicant’s) feet; in this way the §§ 1-18 should be repeated here. (19)

21One should neither be pleased with nor prohibit it, if the other, sitting in the Aṅka or Paryaṅka 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)

22If 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)

23One should neither be pleased with nor prohibit it, if the other tries to cure him by pure charms; If the other tries to cure him by impure charms;

24If he tries to cure him, digging up and cutting, for the sake of a sick monk, living bulbs, roots, rind, or sprouts. (22)

25For sensation is the result of former actions; all sorts of living beings experience sensation.

26This is the whole duty, &c.

27In the text these words are repeated after each Sūtra in §§ 1-10.

28The text gives the whole in extenso.

29The text gives the whole in extenso as in § 11.