Vinaya Pitaka - Monastic Rules
Bhikkhu Vibhanga - Sekhiya 6: To behave well controlled 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, making play with hand and foot, sat amidst the houses. … "
‘Well-controlled will I sit down amidst the houses,’ is a training to be observed."
One should sit down amidst the houses well-controlled. Whoever out of disrespect, making play with hand or foot, sits down 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 nisīdanti … pe … .
2 "susaṃvuto antaraghare nisīdissāmīti sikkhā karaṇīyā"ti. (6:151)
3 susaṃvutena antaraghare nisīditabbaṃ. yo anādariyaṃ paṭicca hatthaṃ vā pādaṃ vā kīḷāpento antaraghare nisīdati, āpatti dukkaṭassa.
4 anāpatti— asañcicca, assatiyā, ajānantassa, gilānassa, ummattakassa, ādikammikassāti.