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"Samādāya vattati" means having undertaken and grasped, he practices, he lives, he dwells. "Āraññiko hoti" means having rejected a dwelling near a village, he becomes a forest dweller by virtue of the forest-dweller's ascetic practice. "Piṇḍapātiko" means having rejected extra gains and fourteen kinds of food, he becomes an alms-food eater by virtue of the alms-food eater's ascetic practice. "Paṃsukūliko" means having rejected householder's robes, he becomes a rag-robe wearer by virtue of the rag-robe wearer's ascetic practice. "Sapadānacāriko" means having rejected greedy wandering, he becomes a house-to-house alms-goer by virtue of the house-to-house alms-goer's ascetic practice; he enters for alms house by house in order. "Vajjigāma" means a village of the Vajjians, or a village among the Vajjians. In phrases like "rich, of great wealth," "rich" means by reason of the greatness of their means of enjoyment and consumption; for their enjoyments and their means of enjoyment are said to be great, abundant, and substantial. "Of great wealth" means by reason of the greatness of their stored-up wealth. "Of great possessions" means by reason of the greatness of their possessions, reckoned as daily expenditure. "Abundant in gold and silver" means by reason of the abundance of gold and silver, as well as other means of enjoyment. "Abundant in means of livelihood" means by reason of the abundance of means of livelihood that serve as adornments and cause joy and delight. "Abundant in wealth and grain" means by reason of the abundance of wealth and grain that circulate in trade. is to be understood as having abundant wealth and grain. Having put away the lodging, means having put away the lodging; the meaning is, having put it away well so that it would not be destroyed. Sixty measures of cooked rice means sixty measures of cooked rice by enumeration. Each measure of cooked rice here holds food for ten monks. All of that is food for six hundred monks. Regarding "they brought the food offering," here "offering" means that which is brought. What is brought? Food. Food itself is the offering, a food offering; that food offering. "They brought" means they brought it face-to-face. The meaning is, they took it and came to him. What was the measure of this? Sixty measures of cooked rice. Therefore it was said – "they brought sixty measures of cooked rice as a food offering." Having distributed to the monks means, since he himself was one who sought the choicest alms, wishing to wander for alms from house to house, he gave it away for the monks' use, having relinquished it. For this venerable one had come for this very purpose: "The monks will gain offerings, and I will not be troubled by alms." Therefore, acting in accordance with his arrival, he distributed to the monks and himself went for alms. 31. A kinsman's slave girl means a slave girl of his relatives. That which has passed a night means that which has passed one night, which has become putrid. Here is the meaning of the word: that which is overcome by the fault of putridity is "abhidosa"; "abhidosika" is "abhidosa" itself, or it is a name for that which has passed one night, namely "abhidosika"; that "abhidosika." Sour gruel means barley gruel. She wished to throw it away means, since it was unfit for consumption even by slave-laborers or cattle, she wished to throw that out like rubbish. If it is means if this. Sister means he addresses the kinsman's slave girl with an Aryan address. A thing to be thrown away means a thing whose nature is to be thrown away. This is what was said: "Sister, if this is a thing to be thrown away outside, a thing whose possession has been relinquished, then pour it into my bowl here." But is it permissible to say this, a request is it not a speech that is used or applied? It is not. Why? Because it is abandoned and ownerless. For whatever is a discardable thing, abandoned and ownerless, where the owners have no attachment, all that is proper to say: "Give, bring, scatter here." Thus, the venerable Raṭṭhapāla, of the Aggāriya clan, also said: "Scatter the discardable kummāsa into my bowl here" (M.N. 2.299). Therefore, whatever such discardable thing, or other unowned forest roots, fruits, medicines, etc., all that should be brought and consumed as one pleases, and one should not feel remorse. Of the hands: of both hands from the wrist onwards, when presenting the bowl for alms. Of the feet: of both feet from the edge of the lower garment onwards. Of the voice: and of the voice that utters the words "If it is, sister." He took a sign: he took a mark recognized before in his lay life, he recognized, he discerned. For Sudinna had gone forth in the twelfth year of the Blessed One's enlightenment, and entered his relatives' house for alms in the twentieth year, having been a monk for eight years himself; therefore, that relative's slave woman, seeing him, did not recognize him, but she took a sign. He said this to Sudinna's mother: unable to speak words like "Are you, venerable sir, my lord Sudinna?" with her husband's son who had gone forth with such great difficulty, she quickly entered the house and said this to Sudinna's mother. Yagghe: is an indeclinable particle in the sense of announcing. Sace je saccaṃ: here, "je" is an indeclinable particle of address. For in that country, they address slave women thus, therefore the meaning here should be understood as: "You, good slave woman, if you speak the truth." 32. At the foot of a certain wall: it is said that in that country, there are halls in the houses of donors, and seats are arranged there, and water-gruel is set out; there, monastics, having wandered for alms, sit and eat. If they wish, they may take what belongs to the donors. is. Therefore, that too should be understood as a certain wall-base of a certain family's such a hall. For monastics do not eat sitting in an unsuitable place like miserable people. "Is there, my dear?" Here, "atthi" is in the sense of existing; "nāma" is a particle in the sense of questioning and supposing. This is what is said: "Is there, my dear Sudinna, wealth for us, that we should not be called poor, for whom you will eat stale gruel sitting in such a place?" Likewise, "Is there, my dear Sudinna, life for us, that we should not be called dead, for whom you will eat stale gruel sitting in such a place?" Likewise, "I suppose, my dear Sudinna, there is a quality of a recluse attained within you by relying on the teaching, that even though you were raised on delicious food, you will eat this disgusting stale gruel without change, as if it were ambrosia." But that householder, being overwhelmed by sorrow, was unable to say this matter in full, and only said, "Is there, my dear Sudinna, that you will eat stale gruel?" Philologists here state this characteristic: this future tense "paribhuñjissasi" is used with the prefix "atthināma" in the sense of disapproval and intolerance. Its meaning is: "Is there... (etc.)... you will eat, I do not believe or tolerate this even when it is directly observed." Here, "tatāyaṃ ābhidosiko" means "this stale gruel was obtained from your house." "Tatoyantipi" is also a reading. Some read "tadāyantipi," but that is not good. "Yena sakapitu nivesanaṃ" means "to his own father's dwelling." The elder, being obedient out of affection for his father, went. "Adhivāsesīti" means the elder, even though he was an excellent alms-eater, out of compassion for his relatives, thought, "If I do not accept even one meal, their sorrow will be too great." he accepted. 33. "Having caused to be plastered" means having caused to be smeared. In "one of gold," "gold" should be understood as a kahāpaṇa coin. "Man" should be understood as one of medium height, neither too tall nor too short. "For a screen" is the locative case used in the sense of purpose; the meaning is "having surrounded with a cloth partition." Or, "that by which they screen" is a screen, having surrounded that; the meaning is "having made it all around." "Therefore" means "because Sudinna will come today for that reason." The particle "hi" is merely for filling out the sentence. "Therefore" - this is also a particle used in the sense of urging. 34. "At the forenoon time" - although the time is not mentioned in the Pāli text, it should be understood that he went at the time announced. "This, my dear, is yours" - he said this while showing two piles. "Of your mother" means of your genetrix. "Maternal" means "come from the mother"; the meaning is "this is the wealth given to your grandmother by her mother when she came to this house." He said "a woman's woman's wealth" in a disparaging way. How much would a woman's wealth, received for a woman's use, for bath powder and so forth, be? See even the amount of that. Or, it means "this, my dear Sudinna, is your mother's wealth, and it is maternal, not given by me, but belonging to your mother." And this was not acquired by farming or by trade, but it is a woman's woman's wealth. The meaning here should be understood as: "Even that woman's wealth, which a woman receives from her family of origin when going to her husband's family, for bath powder and so forth, is this much." "Other is paternal, other is ancestral" - but what belongs to your father and grandfathers, that is different. "Deposited and invested" is exceedingly much; and here "ancestral" should be understood by eliding the taddhita suffix. Or the reading is "petāmahaṃ." "It is possible, my dear Sudinna, to return to a lower state" means "My dear Sudinna, having abandoned the supreme noble banner, the sign of one gone forth, and having returned to the lower state of a householder, it is possible to enjoy wealth, it is not impossible to enjoy it, you are not a king." he has gone forth, not troubled by creditors. Here, in "Tāta, I cannot endure," the word "tāta" is spoken out of household affection, not out of the power of a recluse.