Vinaya Pitaka - Monastic Rules
Bhikkhu Vibhanga - Sekhiya 18: Not to swing the arms when going to inhabited areas.
- Translated from the Pali by I.B. Horner.
… in Anāthapiṇḍika’s monastery. Now at that time the group of six monks, their arms swaying, sat down amidst the houses, bending their arms … " …
Not swaying the arms will I sit down amidst the houses,’ is a training to be observed."
One should not sit down amidst the houses swaying the arms. One should sit down holding the arms straight. Whoever out of disrespect, the arms swaying, sits down amidst the houses bending the arms, there is an offence of wrong-doing.
There is no offence if it is unintentional, if he is not thinking, if he does not know, if he is ill, if he has gone into residence for the rains, if there are accidents, if he is mad, if he is the first wrong-doer.
1 tena samayena buddho bhagavā sāvatthiyaṃ viharati jetavane anāthapiṇḍikassa ārāme. tena kho pana samayena chabbaggiyā bhikkhū bāhuppacālakaṃ antaraghare nisīdanti bāhuṃ olambentā … pe … .
2 "na bāhuppacālakaṃ antaraghare nisīdissāmīti sikkhā karaṇīyā"ti. (18:163)
3 na bāhuppacālakaṃ antaraghare nisīditabbaṃ. bāhuṃ paggahetvā nisīditabbaṃ. yo anādariyaṃ paṭicca bāhuppacālakaṃ antaraghare nisīdati bāhuṃ olambento, āpatti dukkaṭassa.
4 anāpatti— asañcicca, assatiyā, ajānantassa, gilānassa, vāsūpagatassa, āpadāsu, ummattakassa, ādikammikassāti.