A chaste monk should always avoid well-dressed food and drink which will soon raise his sensuality. (7)

A chaste monk should always eat his food, collected according to the rules, for the sustenance of life, in the prescribed quantity, and at the right time; concentrated in his thoughts he should not eat to excess. (8)

A chaste monk should abstain from ornaments, he should not adorn his body after the fashion of amorous people. (9)

He should always abstain from the five orders of pleasant things: sounds, colours, smells, tastes, and feelings of touch. (10)

A lodging frequented by women, their pleasant talk, their company, and looking at their charms; (11)

Their screeching, screaming, singing, and laughing, eating and sleeping together with them; well-dressed food and drink, or partaking of them to excess; (12)

And ornaments and finery : these pleasant things,

which are hard to leave, are like the poison Talaputa , for a man who seeks after the true Self. (13)

He should, once for all, abandon pleasant things which are hard to leave; and concentrated in his thoughts he should avoid whatever casts a doubt on his chastity. (14)

A monk should be the steadfast charioteer, as it were, of the Law in the park of the Law , a vessel of righteousness, content, restrained, attentive to the duties of a chaste monk. (15)

The gods, Danavas, Gandharvas, Yakshas, Rakshasas, and Kinnaras pay homage to a chaste monk who performs his difficult duties. (16)

This unchangeable, permanent, and eternal Law has been proclaimed by the Ginas; through it the Siddhas have reached perfection, and others will reach it. (17)

Thus I say.

Footnotes

^73:1 The word 'here' is explained as meaning 'in this religion of the Gainas.' See <page 8>, note .

^73:2 Samvara is the stopping of the asravas by means of the Samitis and Guptis, see above, <page 55>, note .

^74:1 Literally, beds and seats.

^74:2 This might also be rendered: he should not talk about women.

^75:1 The preceding part of this lecture is in prose.

^76:1 Ittham ka, i.e. ishtam ka. The commentators connect the words with the second part of the sentence. By giving to ka the meaning of api they interpret the two words in question as meaning 'though very pleasant.'

^77:1 Talauda. According to the Dipika it is a poison which kills by merely touching the palate (talukasparsanamatrad eva); but this is a mere guess prompted by a wrong etymology. Talauda stands perhaps for talakuta, which may have been a variant of kalakuta, the deadly poison swallowed by Siva.

^77:2 Here we have twice the same word dhammarame, which I have once translated 'park of the Law,' and then 'vessel of righteousness.' It is obvious that a play on this word is intended, though I may have failed to hit the meaning of the author.