A monk or a nun should not ease nature where three or four roads meet, nor in courtyards or squares. (16)

A monk or a nun should not ease nature where charcoal or potash is produced, or the dead are burnt, or on the or shrines of the dead. (17)

A monk or a nun should not ease nature at sacred places near rivers, marshes or ponds, or in a conduit. (18)

A monk or a nun should not ease nature in fresh clay pits, fresh pasture grounds for cattle, in meadows or quarries. (19)

A monk or a nun should not ease nature in a field of shrubs, vegetables, or roots. (20)

A monk or a nun should not ease nature in woods of Asana , Sana , Dhataki , Ketaki , Mango, Asoka, Punnaga, or other such-like places which contain leaves, flowers, fruits, seeds, or sprouts. (21)

A monk or a nun should take their own chamber-pot or that of somebody else, and going apart with it, they should ease nature in a secluded place where no people pass or see them, and which is free from eggs or living beings, &c.; then taking (the chamber-pot), they should go to a secluded spot, and leave the excrements there on a heap of ashes, &c. (see II, 1, 1, section 2).

This is the whole duty, &c.

Thus I say. (22)

Footnotes

^180:2 Ukkarapasavanasattikkao, discharging of feces and urine.

^180:3 Purisamtarakada, here translated svikrita. The text proceeds gava bahiya nihadam va, which I do not know how to apply to the object in question. As section 3 differs from section 2 only in giving the negative attributes (apurisamtarakadam), I have contracted both paragraphs in the translation.

^181:1 Parisademsu va, explained parikshepanadikah kriyah kuryuh.

^182:1 The translation of some of the words in the text is merely conjectural.

^182:2 Vattaya. I think this is the modern battak, duck.

^182:3 The commentator says: where they fall like a tree, having starved themselves to death, or where they fall from trees.

^183:1 Terminalia Tomentosa.

^183:2 Crotolaria Juncea.

^183:3 Grislea Tomentosa.

^183:4 Pandanus Odoratissimus.

ELEVENTH LECTURE .

A monk or a nun should not resolve to go where they will hear sounds of a Mridanga, Nandimridanga, or Ghallari , or any such-like various sounds of drums. (1)

If a monk or a nun hear any sounds, viz. of the Vina, Vipamki, Vadvisaka, Tunaka, Panaka, Tumbavinika, or Dhamkuna, 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 Tala, Lattiya, Gohiya , or Kirikiriya; (3)

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

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