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Frequenting fairs, laziness; Gambling, bad friends, These are the gateways to the destruction of wealth. 140. One should not speak during the day, Nor remain silent at night; One should wander, fearing danger, Like a forest dweller in the woods. 141. Though living, five are as good as dead, Enumerated in brief: The afflicted, the sick, the deluded, The debtor, the perpetual servant. 142. Seeing future danger, One should avoid it from afar; And seeing danger that has come, The wise man is not afraid. 143. The sleepy, the heedless, The pleasure-seeker, the lazy invalid; The very ambitious, the work-shirker, These seven are devoid of benefit. 144. The unfortunate goes for gain, The fortunate is filled with gain; Rain on the dry land, O cloud, The ocean is filled with water; Nothing is achieved by effort alone. 145. Indeed, no one, having done a deed, Disregards the doer; Therefore, all tasks, Should be done with something left over. 146. Cotton is the lightest in the world, Lighter than that is fickleness; Lighter than that is the advice of the old, Heedlessness in the Buddha's teaching. 147. A stone umbrella is heavy, Heavier than that is the inaccessibility of the gods; Heavier than that is the advice of the old, Heavier than that is the Buddha's teaching. 148. The right hand is for the body, Anger is the youngest here; Ears, nose, and eyes, The left is for feet and traps. 149. In the middle of the betel leaf, Kuvera always protects; At the root, a yaksha protects, At the tip, a bringer of misfortune; One should eat them, having cut them off, Thus prosperity increases. 150. Brahma is the complete protector, Vishnu is the excellent protector; Therefore, they should worship him, Always honoring that man. 151. Cows are for all householders, Providers. Givers of wealth. Therefore, like mother and father, One should honor and respect them. 152. Those who eat beef, Eat as if it were their mother's flesh; In those dead ones, vultures, Give them sounds and let them flow. 153. Guru-siddha, the start of crafts, Sun, Venus, and the middle; Not a craft, Buddha-moon, Saturn, Mars, and death. 154. On the eighth, it kills the teacher, On the fourteenth, it kills the student; On the tenth, it kills ten crafts, Mother and father on the full moon. 155. Do not eat seven coconuts, Nor nine gourds thus; Twelve, the pressed trimina, Eating it, the craft perishes. 156. For the sake of the clan, abandon one, For the sake of the village, abandon a clan; For the sake of the country, abandon a village, For one's own sake, abandon the earth. 157. Leaving the country, they go, The lion, the good person, the elephant; Right there they meet their end, The crow, the bad person, the deer. 158. In whatever place there is no honor, No love, nor relatives, Nor any acquisition of knowledge, One should not dwell there. 159. He walks with one foot, The wise one stands with one; Without considering another place, One should not abandon the former abode. 160. In wealth, grain, and uses, As well as in the acquisition of knowledge; In messengers and offenses, One should abandon shame then. 161. Twice the food for a woman, Four times the intellect; Six times the exertion, Eight times the desire. 162. Joint by joint, sugarcane, With special taste and sweetness; Thus the good friend is virtuous, The opposite is the wicked one. 163. Farmer, merchant, man, Ascetic, son, virtuous; When these are abundant, The country too will be abundant. 164. Non-recitation is the impurity of mantras, Non-effort is the impurity of homes; Laziness is the impurity of beauty, Negligence is the impurity of a protector. 165. Wealth goes to the inferior, The brave have what is theirs; The inferior people say, "Predominant is former action." 166. The wise do not say thus, They strive in all actions; If that action does not succeed, What fault is there in being fruitless? 167. Low k A clever saying, Without form, without strength, equal; This time, a fleeting time, Wealth alone is special. The miscellaneous section is finished. The wise, the virtuous, The wicked, friends, and women; The king and the miscellaneous— Adorned with seven sections. By the pure-conducted elder, Dwelling in the pure monastery; For the welfare of all families, Purified at the end of the path.