Vinaya Pitaka - Monastic Rules
Bhikkhu Vibhanga - Sekhiya 5: To behave well controlled when sitting in inhabited areas.
- Translated from the Pali by I.B. Horner.
… in Anāthapiṇḍika’s monastery. Now at that time the group of six monks, making play with hand and foot, went amidst the houses … "
‘Well-controlled will I go amidst the houses,’ is a training to be observed."
One should go amidst the houses well-controlled. Whoever out of disrespect, making play with hand or foot, goes amidst the houses, 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 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 hatthampi pādampi kīḷāpentā antaraghare gacchanti … pe … .
2 "susaṃvuto antaraghare gamissāmīti sikkhā karaṇīyā"ti. (5:150)
3 susaṃvutena antaraghare gantabbaṃ. yo anādariyaṃ paṭicca hatthaṃ vā pādaṃ vā kīḷāpento antaraghare gacchati, āpatti dukkaṭassa.
4 anāpatti— asañcicca, assatiyā, ajānantassa, gilānassa, ummattakassa, ādikammikassāti.