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a tooth-stick should be given, water for the face should be given, a seat should be prepared. If there is gruel, having washed the bowl, the gruel should be offered. When the gruel is drunk, giving water, taking the bowl, lowering it, washing it well without clashing, it should be put away. When the preceptor rises, the seat should be removed. If that place is dirty, that place should be swept. If the preceptor wishes to enter the village, the lower robe should be given, the used lower robe should be received, the waistband should be given, having folded them well, the outer robes should be given, having washed it, the bowl with water should be given. If the preceptor desires a junior companion, covering the three circles, wearing the lower robe neatly, tying the waistband, having folded them well, putting on the outer robes, untying the knot, having washed and taken the bowl, one should be the preceptor's junior companion. One should not go too far, one should not go too near, what is received in the bowl should be accepted. One should not interrupt the preceptor speaking with talk. If the preceptor speaks near an offense, he should be restrained. Returning, coming first, a seat should be prepared, water for the feet, a footstool, a foot-mat should be placed, going forward, the bowl and robe should be received, the used lower robe should be given, the lower robe should be received. If the robe is wet, it should be aired in the sun for a moment, but the robe should not be left in the sun; the robe should be folded, by one folding the robe, lifting a corner by four fingers, the robe should be folded – so that there is no crease in the middle. The waistband should be placed in the fold. If there is alms food, upajj... And if the preceptor wishes to eat, water should be given, and alms-food should be offered. The preceptor should be asked for drinking water. When he has eaten, water should be given, the bowl should be received, lowered, and washed well without resentment, then dried of water, and exposed to the sun for a moment; but the bowl should not be left in the sun. The bowl and robe should be put away. When putting away the bowl, taking the bowl with one hand, and touching the under-bed or under-stool with the other hand, the bowl should be put away. And the bowl should not be placed on the bare ground. When putting away the robe, taking the robe with one hand, and wiping the robe-pole or robe-rope with the other hand, making a fold from the far end to the near end, the robe should be put away. When the preceptor has risen, the seat should be removed, the foot-water, foot-stool, and foot-mat should be put away. If that place is dirty, that place should be swept. "If the preceptor wishes to bathe, the bath should be prepared. If cold water is needed, cold water should be prepared. If hot water is needed, hot water should be prepared. "If the preceptor wishes to enter the hot-bath house, powder should be collected, clay should be moistened, taking the hot-bath stool, going behind the preceptor, giving the hot-bath stool, receiving the robe, it should be placed aside, powder should be given, clay should be given. If one is able, the hot-bath house should be entered. When entering the hot-bath house, having smeared the face with clay, and covered oneself front and back, the hot-bath house should be entered. One should not sit pressing against elder monks. New monks should not be pushed away from their seats. In the hot-bath house, service should be rendered to the preceptor. When leaving the hot-bath house, taking the hot-bath stool, and covered front and back, one should leave the hot-bath house. Even in water, the preceptor his service should be done. Having bathed, first, he should come out, dry his own body, dress, and wipe the water from his preceptor's body, give him his lower robe, give him his outer robe, take the bathhouse stool, come first, arrange the seat, place the foot-water, foot-stool, and foot-wiper, and ask the preceptor for drinking water. If he wishes to be taught, he should be taught. If he wishes to be questioned, he should be questioned. If the dwelling where the preceptor resides is dirty, if he is able, it should be cleaned. When cleaning the dwelling, first, the bowl and robes should be taken out and placed aside. The sitting mat should be taken out and placed aside. The cushion should be taken out and placed aside. The bed should be lowered, and carefully, without knocking, without scraping the door frame, it should be taken out and placed aside. The stool should be lowered, and carefully, without knocking, without scraping the door frame, it should be taken out and placed aside. The bed legs should be taken out and placed aside. The spittoon should be taken out and placed aside. The backrest board should be taken out and placed aside. The floor covering, noting its arrangement, should be taken out and placed aside. If there is a canopy in the dwelling, the ceiling should first be taken down, the corners of the window frames should be wiped. If the wall, plastered with red ochre, is dirty, a cloth should be moistened, squeezed, and used to wipe it. If the floor, colored black, is dirty, a cloth should be moistened, squeezed, and used to wipe it. If the floor is unplastered, it should be sprinkled with water and swept— lest the dwelling be filled with dust. The rubbish should be collected and discarded aside. The floor covering should be spread out and cleaned. having taken it, having shaken it, having carried it away, it should be arranged as prescribed. The bed-legs, having been wiped, having been cleaned, having been carried away, should be placed in their proper place. The bed, having been wiped, having been cleaned, having been shaken, having been lowered, carefully, without bumping, without striking the door-frame, having been carried away, should be arranged as prescribed. The stool, having been wiped, having been cleaned, having been shaken, having been lowered, carefully, without bumping, without striking the door-frame, having been carried away, should be arranged as prescribed. The cushion-cover, having been wiped, having been cleaned, having been shaken, having been carried away, should be arranged as prescribed. The sitting-mat, having been wiped, having been cleaned, having been shaken, having been carried away, should be arranged as prescribed. The spittoon, having been wiped, having been cleaned, having been carried away, should be placed in its proper place. The back-rest board, having been wiped, having been cleaned, having been carried away, should be placed in its proper place. The bowl and robe should be put away. When putting away the bowl, one should take the bowl with one hand, and with the other hand touch the underside of the bed or the underside of the stool, and then put away the bowl. The bowl should not be placed directly on the ground. When putting away the robe, one should take the robe with one hand, and with the other hand wipe the robe-pole or the robe-rope, and making the far end the outside and the near end the fold, the robe should be put away. If dusty winds blow from the east, the eastern windows should be closed. If dusty winds blow from the west, the western windows should be closed. If dusty winds blow from the north, the northern windows should be closed. If dusty winds blow from the south, the southern windows should be closed. If it is the cold season, the windows should be opened during the day, and closed at night. If it is the hot season, the windows should be closed during the day, and opened at night. If the courtyard is dirty, the courtyard should be swept. If the storeroom is dirty, , the storeroom should be swept. If the service hall is dirty, the service hall should be swept. If the fire hall is dirty, the fire hall should be swept. If the latrine is dirty, the latrine should be swept. If there is no drinking water, drinking water should be provided. If there is no water for rinsing, water for rinsing should be provided. If there is no water in the rinsing pot, water should be poured into the rinsing pot. If discontent has arisen in the preceptor, the co-resident should appease him, or have him appeased, or give him a Dhamma talk. If anxiety has arisen in the preceptor, the co-resident should remove it, or have it removed, or give him a Dhamma talk. If a wrong view has arisen in the preceptor, the co-resident should clarify it, or have it clarified, or give him a Dhamma talk. If the preceptor has fallen into a grave offense and is worthy of probation, the co-resident should make an effort— "How might the Sangha grant the preceptor probation?" If the preceptor is worthy of being sent back to the beginning, the co-resident should make an effort— "How might the Sangha send the preceptor back to the beginning?" If the preceptor is worthy of penance, the co-resident should make an effort— "How might the Sangha grant the preceptor penance?" If the preceptor is worthy of rehabilitation, the co-resident should make an effort— "How might the Sangha rehabilitate the preceptor?" If the Sangha wishes to carry out an act against the preceptor— whether of censure, or of banishment, or of expulsion, or of reconciliation, or of suspension— the co-resident should make an effort— "How might the Sangha not carry out an act against the preceptor, or reduce it to a lighter one?" Or if an act has been carried out by the Sangha against him— whether of censure, or of banishment, or of expulsion, or of reconciliation— or a suspension, the co-resident should strive: "How might the preceptor behave properly, shed his fault, reverse the matter, and the Sangha revoke that action?" "If the preceptor's robe needs washing, the co-resident should wash it, or strive: "How might the preceptor's robe be washed?" If the preceptor's robe needs making, the co-resident should make it, or strive: "How might the preceptor's robe be made?"