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the teacher should give the pupil a bowl, or strive —how might a bowl arise for the pupil? If the teacher has a robe, and the pupil does not, the teacher should give the pupil a robe, or strive —how might a robe arise for the pupil? If the teacher has requisites, and the pupil does not, the teacher should give the pupil requisites, or strive —how might requisites arise for the pupil? If the pupil is sick, rising early, a tooth-stick should be given, mouth-water should be given, a seat should be prepared. If there is gruel, having washed the bowl, gruel should be offered. Having drunk the gruel, giving water, taking the bowl, lowering it, washing it well, without resentment, it should be put away. When the pupil has risen, the seat should be removed. If that place is dirty, that place should be swept. If the pupil wishes to enter the village, the lower robe should be given, the returned lower robe should be received, the waistband should be given, the outer robes should be given, folded properly, the bowl, washed and with water, should be given. "He will return by this time," a seat should be prepared, foot-water, a foot-stool, a foot-mat should be placed, going forth, the bowl and robe should be received, the returned lower robe should be given, the lower robe should be received. If the robe is damp, it should be exposed to the sun for a moment, but the robe should not be left in the sun. The robe should be folded. When folding the robe, raising a corner four fingers high, the robe should be folded —lest there be a crease in the middle. A waistband should be made in the fold. If there is alms-food And if the pupil wishes to eat, having given water, the alms-food should be offered. The pupil should be asked about drinking water. When he has eaten, having given water, the bowl should be received, lowered, thoroughly washed without splashing, made waterless, and for a moment, exposed to the sun. But the bowl should not be left in the sun. The bowl and robe should be put away. When putting away the bowl, when putting away the robe, the robe should be put away by folding it from end to end, from near to far. When the pupil 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 pupil 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 pupil wishes to enter the hot-room, powder should be prepared, clay should be moistened. Taking the hot-room stool, going, and giving the hot-room stool, the robe should be received and placed aside. Powder should be given, clay should be given. If able, the hot-room should be entered. When entering the hot-room, having smeared the face with clay, and covered oneself front and back, the hot-room should be entered. One should not sit crowding elder monks. New monks should not be pushed away from seats. In the hot-room, service should be rendered to the pupil. When leaving the hot-room, taking the hot-room stool, and covering oneself front and back, the hot-room should be exited. Even in the water, service should be rendered to the pupil. Having bathed, one should first come out, make one's own body waterless, put on a lower robe, and wipe the water from the pupil's body. A lower robe should be given, an outer robe should be given. Taking the hot-room stool, one should first When he comes, a seat should be prepared. Foot-water, a foot-stool, a foot-towel should be placed nearby. The pupil should be asked if he wants water. In whichever dwelling the pupil resides, if that dwelling is dirty, if he is able, it should be cleaned. By one cleaning the dwelling, first the bowl and robes should be taken out and placed aside. ... If there is no water in the rinsing pot, water should be poured into the rinsing pot. If discontent has arisen in the pupil, the teacher should pacify him, or have him pacified, or a Dhamma talk should be given to him. If remorse has arisen in the pupil, the teacher should remove it, or have it removed, or a Dhamma talk should be given to him. If a wrong view has arisen in the pupil, the teacher should explain it, or have it explained, or a Dhamma talk should be given to him. If the pupil has fallen into a serious offense, deserving of probation, the teacher should make an effort: "How might the Saṅgha grant probation to the pupil?" If the pupil is deserving of being sent back to the beginning, the teacher should make an effort: "How might the Saṅgha send the pupil back to the beginning?" If the pupil is deserving of the mānatta penance, the teacher should make an effort: "How might the Saṅgha grant the mānatta penance to the pupil?" If the pupil is deserving of rehabilitation, the teacher should make an effort: "How might the Saṅgha rehabilitate the pupil?" If the Saṅgha wishes to perform an act on the pupil, whether it be a censure, or a reprimand, or an expulsion, or a reconciliation, or a suspension, the teacher should make an effort: "How might the Saṅgha not perform the act on the pupil, or mitigate it?" Or if an act has been performed on him by the Saṅgha, whether it be a censure, or a reprimand, or an expulsion, or a reconciliation, or a suspension, the teacher should make an effort: "How might the pupil..." the pupil should behave properly, should remove hair, should clean the latrine. The Saṅgha should revoke that act. If the pupil's robe needs to be washed, the teacher should instruct: "You should wash it like this," or effort should be made: "How indeed should the pupil's robe be washed?" If the pupil's robe needs to be made, the teacher should instruct: "You should make it like this," or effort should be made: "How indeed should the pupil's robe be made?" If the pupil's dye needs to be cooked, the teacher should instruct: "You should cook it like this," or effort should be made: "How indeed should the pupil's dye be cooked?" If the pupil's robe needs to be dyed, the teacher should instruct: "You should dye it like this," or effort should be made: "How indeed should the pupil's robe be dyed?" When dyeing a robe, it should be dyed thoroughly, turning it over and over. And one should not leave while drops are still falling. If the pupil is sick, he should be attended to for life, his recovery should be awaited. This, monks, is the duty of teachers towards pupils, how teachers should behave properly towards pupils. The Chapter on Duties, the eighth. In this chapter, there are nineteen stories, and fourteen duties. Its summary: With sandals and umbrellas, and covering the head, water; They do not greet, do not ask, the snake, they abandon, the gentle ones. He took off the umbrella, and from the shoulder, and crossed, and returned; He put down the bowl and robe, and was asked about the proper one. He should sprinkle with what is washed, with dry and wet sandals; The old and the new should ask, and about the dwelling and alms-round. The trainees, the latrine, the water, the small one, the one who does what, then; Time, a moment, the dirt, he should remove the floor-covering. The foot-rest, the cushion, the couch, the chair, and the bowl; The back-rest, the window-ears, the red ochre, the black, the unmade. The rubbish and the floor-covering... A carrying pole, a bed and a chair; A cushion for sitting, a pillow for leaning. Robe and bowl, and the ground, a portion from near and far; From the east and the west, from the north and then the south. Cold and heat, day and night, a cloister and a storeroom; A service fire and a hall, and duties in the latrines. Drinking and eating, a pot for rinsing; Incomparably prescribed, these duties for guests. No seat, no water, no welcome, no drink; No greeting, no instruction, the gentle ones complain. An elder's seat and water, welcome and drink; Sandals to one side, greeting and instruction. A resident's alms-round and training, a place for water and food; A novice's time for cutting, and for sitting. Greet and inform, as below so above; The duties for residents, prescribed by the caravan leader. Travelers and firewood, opened without asking; Are lost and unguarded, the gentle ones complain. Put away and cover, ask permission then depart; Be it a monk or a novice, a monastery attendant or a lay follower. Piles of stones, put away and cover; If one is able, diligently, and likewise in the rain. All rain falls on the village, and likewise in the open; May these things remain, the duty of a traveling monk. They do not approve with the elder, leaving four or five; Weary and faint, they were in the approval of duties. The group of six, badly robed, and also badly covered; Improperly and deviating, not approaching the elders. New monks and their robes, the gentle ones complain; Wearing the three circles, a knot of body-virtues. Not deviating from what is covered, well-restrained, with downcast eyes; Loud laughter and noise, and three kinds of swaying. Stiff, veiled, squatting, covered, well-restrained; Downcast, uplifted, laughing, soft-voiced, three kinds of movement. Stiff, veiled, cross-legged, not approaching the seat; Submerging in water, Lowering and sprinkling. The robe opposite, And receiving rice; Soup with extra portion, And equal for all. Carefully mindful of the bowl, And soup in due order; Do not cover from the heap, With the thought of asking. A large circular opening, No hand should speak; Lifting, cutting, lumps, Shaking, scattering grains. And sticking out the tongue, Champing, slurping; Licking hand, bowl, lips, Receiving with greed. Until all in water, Lowering and sprinkling; The robe opposite, Lowering to the ground. Returning with grains, Well-covered, squatting; Enjoined by the King of Dhamma, This is the conduct at the meal. Badly dressed, unseemly, Not observing quickly; Far, too long, quickly,