or push it, or draw it with the rope towards you, or, let us do it together,' he should not comply with his request, but look on silently. (16)

If, on board, the other should say to him, 'O long-lived Sramana! you cannot pull the boat forward or backward, or push it, or draw it with a rope towards you; give us the rope, we will ourselves pull the boat forward or backward, &c.,' he should not comply with his request, but look on silently. (17)

If, on board, the other should say to him, 'O long-lived Sramana! if you can, pull the boat by the oar, the rudder, the pole, and other nautical instruments ,' he should not comply with his request, but look on silently. (18)

If, on board, the other should say to him, 'O long-lived Sramana! please, lade out the water with your hand, or pitcher , or vessel, or alms-bowl, or bucket,' he should not comply with his request, but look on silently. (19)

If, on board, the other should say to him, 'O long-lived Sramana! please, stop the boat's leak with your hand, foot, arm, thigh, belly, head, body, the bucket, or a cloth, or with mud, Kusa-grass, or lotus leaves,' he should not comply with his request, but look on silently. (20)

If a monk or a nun see that water enters through a leak in the boat, and the boat becomes dirty all over, they should not approach the boatman and say: 'O long-lived householder! water enters through a leak into the boat, and it becomes dirty all over.'

[paragraph continues] One should not think so or speak so; but undisturbed, the mind not directed outwardly, one should collect one's self for contemplation; then one may circumspectly complete one's journey by the boat on the water.

This is the whole duty, &c.

Thus I say. (21)

Footnotes

^136:1 Iriya.

^136:2 I.e. keep the paggusan.

^137:1 He should in that case stay in the same place for the whole month Margasirsha, where he was during the rainy season.

^137:2 According to the commentary mlekkha (milakkhu) means the Varvara, Sarvara, Pulindra, &c.; the non-Aryans are those who live not in the 36 1/2 countries.

^138:1 Viham, forest, as explained in the third lesson. But the commentator here explains it, a journey of some days.

^139:1 By householder is here intended the host of the mendicant.

^139:2 Thale = sthale. The commentator explains it by akase.

^140:1 Rudder is a guess for pidha, nautical instruments for valaya and avallaya.

^140:2 Paena = patrena. The Guzerati commentator takes it for padena, foot.

SECOND 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, section 2), hold these various dangerous instruments , let this boy or girl drink,' he should not comply with his request, but look on silently. (1)