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should sit down upon or lie down upon a bed or a chair with legs that strike, an offense entailing expiation. The Training Rule on Large Monasteries 19. If a bhikkhu is having a large monastery built, he should stand on ground free of vegetation and supervise the work up to the door-frame, for fixing the bolt, for the work on the window-openings, and for two or three layers of roofing. If beyond that, he stands on ground free of vegetation and supervises, an offense entailing expiation. The Training Rule on Living Beings 20. If any bhikkhu, knowing water to contain living beings, should sprinkle water, or grass, or clay, or cause it to be sprinkled, an offense entailing expiation. The Second Chapter on Plants and Living Beings. The Training Rule on Admonition 21. If any bhikkhu, unauthorized, should admonish bhikkhunis, an offense entailing expiation. The Training Rule on Sunset 22. Even if a bhikkhu is authorized, if he should admonish bhikkhunis when the sun has set, an offense entailing expiation. The Training Rule on Bhikkhunis' Dwellings 23. If any bhikkhu, having gone to a bhikkhunis' dwelling, should admonish bhikkhunis except at the proper time, an offense entailing expiation. This is the proper time there: a bhikkhuni is ill. This is the proper time there. The Training Rule on Material Gain 24. If any bhikkhu should say thus: "For the sake of material gain, the elder bhikkhus admonish the bhikkhunis," an offense entailing expiation. The Training Rule on Giving Robes 25. If any bhikkhu should give a robe to a bhikkhuni who is not a relative, except in exchange, an offense entailing expiation. The Training Rule on Sewing Robes 26. If any bhikkhu, for a bhikkhuni who is not a relative, should sew a robe or cause it to be sewn, an offense entailing expiation. The Training Rule on Arrangement 27. If any bhikkhu, having made an arrangement together with a bhikkhuni, on one road... Should go on a wrong path, even between villages, except at the right time, an offense of expiation. Therein this is the right time: the path is traveled by a caravan, considered dangerous, full of peril. This is the right time therein. The Rule on Boarding a Boat 28. Whatever monk, having arranged with a nun, should board one boat, going upstream or going downstream, except for crossing over, an offense of expiation. The Rule on Food Prepared by a Nun 29. Whatever monk, knowing, should eat almsfood prepared by a nun, except if lay people had started it earlier, an offense of expiation. The Rule on Sitting in Private 30. Whatever monk, with a nun, alone with alone, should arrange a private sitting, an offense of expiation. The Third Chapter on Admonition. The Rule on Lodging-House Food 31. By a monk who is not sick, one lodging-house meal should be eaten. If he should eat more than that, an offense of expiation. The Rule on Group Eating 32. In group eating, except at the right time, an offense of expiation. Therein this is the right time: a time of sickness, a time of robe-giving, a time of robe-making, a time of journeying, a time of boarding a boat, a great occasion, a time of a monk's meal. This is the right time therein. The Rule on Successive Eating 33. In successive eating, except at the right time, an offense of expiation. Therein this is the right time: a time of sickness, a time of robe-giving, a time of robe-making. This is the right time therein. The Rule on Kāṇamātā 34. If a monk, having arrived at a family, should be invited to accept cakes or pastries, by a monk who desires them, two or three bowlfuls should be accepted. If he should accept more than that, an offense of expiation. Having accepted two or three bowlfuls, having brought them out from there, they should be shared with the monks. This is the proper conduct therein. The Rule on the First Invitation 35. Whatever monk, having eaten and been invited, unapproved hard food or soft food, should eat or consume, an offense of expiation. The Rule on the Second Invitation 36. Whatever A bhikkhu should not, knowing that a bhikkhu has eaten, and has refused (more food), offer him food or delicacies that are not leftovers, saying, "Come, bhikkhu, eat or consume," expecting to annoy him. If he eats, it is an offense entailing expiation. The training rule concerning eating at the wrong time. 37. If any bhikkhu eats or consumes food or delicacies at the wrong time, it is an offense entailing expiation. The training rule concerning stored food. 38. If any bhikkhu eats or consumes food or delicacies that have been stored, it is an offense entailing expiation. The training rule concerning choice foods. 39. Now, these are choice foods: namely, ghee, fresh butter, oil, honey, molasses, fish, meat, milk, curds. If any bhikkhu, not being ill, requests for himself such choice foods and consumes them, it is an offense entailing expiation. The training rule concerning tooth-cleaning sticks. 40. If any bhikkhu brings food into his mouth that has not been given, except for water and tooth-cleaning sticks, it is an offense entailing expiation. The chapter on food is the fourth. The training rule concerning naked ascetics. 41. If any bhikkhu gives with his own hand food or delicacies to a naked ascetic, or to a male or female wanderer, it is an offense entailing expiation. The training rule concerning sending away. 42. If any bhikkhu says to another bhikkhu, "Come, friend, let us enter a village or town for alms," and then, having caused him to be given (food) or not caused him to be given (food), sends him away, saying, "Go, friend, conversation or sitting with you is not agreeable to me; conversation or sitting alone is agreeable to me," making this the reason and no other, it is an offense entailing expiation. The training rule concerning families with food. 43. If any bhikkhu sits down in a family that is eating, intruding (upon them), it is an offense entailing expiation. The training rule concerning sitting in a secluded, covered place. 44. If any bhikkhu sits down with a woman in a secluded, covered place, it is an offense entailing expiation. The training rule concerning sitting alone in seclusion. 45. If any bhikkhu sits down with a woman, one man with one woman, alone in seclusion, an offense entailing expiation. The training rule concerning going on circuit 46. If any bhikkhu, being invited to a meal, without asking a resident bhikkhu, should go on circuit among families before the meal or after the meal, except at the proper time, it is an offense entailing expiation. And what is the proper time there? The time of robe-giving, the time of robe-making. This is the proper time there. The training rule concerning Mahānāma 47. A bhikkhu who is not ill may accept a four-month invitation for requisites, except for a renewed invitation or a continuous invitation. If he accepts more than that, it is an offense entailing expiation. The training rule concerning an army drawn up for battle 48. If any bhikkhu should go to see an army drawn up for battle, except for a suitable reason, it is an offense entailing expiation. The training rule concerning staying in an army 49. If there should be some reason for that bhikkhu to go to the army, he may stay in the army for two or three nights. If he stays longer than that, it is an offense entailing expiation. The training rule concerning a battlefield 50. If a bhikkhu, while staying in the army for two or three nights, should go to a battlefield, or a review of forces, or a battle array, or a troop inspection, it is an offense entailing expiation. The fifth chapter, the Naked Ascetics. The training rule concerning drinking liquor 51. For drinking intoxicating liquor or fermented liquor, it is an offense entailing expiation. The training rule concerning poking with a finger 52. For poking with a finger, it is an offense entailing expiation. The training rule concerning playing in water 53. For playing in the water, it is an offense entailing expiation. The training rule concerning disrespect 54. For disrespect, it is an offense entailing expiation. The training rule concerning frightening 55. If any bhikkhu should frighten another bhikkhu, it is an offense entailing expiation. The training rule concerning fire 56. If any bhikkhu, not being ill, and desiring to warm himself, should light a fire or have a fire lit, except for a suitable reason, it is an offense entailing expiation. The training rule concerning bathing 57. If any bhikkhu should bathe within half a month, except at the proper time, it is an offense entailing expiation. And what is the proper time there? "One and a half months remaining of the hot season," "the first month of the rainy season"— these two and a half months are the hot season, the season of heat, the time of illness, the time of work, the time of journeying. It is the season of wind and rain, this is the season for that. The Training Rule on Discoloring 58. When a bhikkhu receives a new robe, he must apply one of the three discolorations: blue, or mud-color, or blackish-brown. If a bhikkhu, without applying one of the three discolorations, uses a new robe, it is a pācittiya. The Training Rule on Designation 59. If any bhikkhu, having personally designated a robe to a bhikkhu, or a bhikkhunī, or a female trainee, or a novice, or a female novice, uses it without withdrawing the designation, it is a pācittiya. The Training Rule on Hiding 60. If any bhikkhu hides or causes to be hidden a bhikkhu's bowl, or robe, or sitting cloth, or needle case, or waistband, even if only for a joke, it is a pācittiya. The Sixth Chapter: On Drinking Liquor. The Training Rule on Intention 61. If any bhikkhu intentionally deprives a living being of life, it is a pācittiya. The Training Rule on Water with Living Beings 62. If any bhikkhu, knowing there are living beings in it, uses water, it is a pācittiya. The Training Rule on Reopening