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If this causes the man to recollect his debt, well and good ! but if the priest does not even thus procure the robe, and go back after this to the man to try to get it — this is nissaggiya pachittiya. If he do not obtain the robe, he may either go himself, or send a messenger to the place whence the gift came and say: "The money which you sent some time ago as a present for the purchase of a robe for a particular priest, and which you entrusted to the care of such and such a person, has not been used for the benefit of the priest in question, you should go back and take it therefore,, lest it be lost." Such is the rule. 11. If a Bikshu make a new coverlet for himself out of mixed silk, it is nissaggiya pachittiya. 12. If a Bikshu make a coverlet out of the fresh and un- mixed wool of the black Tartar sheep, it is nissaggiya pachittiya. 13. If a Bikshu make a new coverlet for himself he ought to use two parts of pure black wool, three parts of white, and four parts brown or tawny. If he do not observe this proportion, it is nissaggiya pachittiya. 14. If a Bikshu make a new coverlet for himself, he ought to keep it fully six years ; if because he has not got rid of it within the six years, he makes himself a new one, except by permission of a Sangha-kamma; this is nissaggiya pachitiya. 15. If a Bikshu make a new seat-cover, he ought to take an old piece, one span in length and breadth, and patch it over the new, in order to destroy its appearance; if in making: a new scat-cover he does not follow his rule it is nissaghiya patchittiya. 16. If a Bikshu going along the road, obtain (whether by SCRIPTURES FROM THE CHINESE, 219 gift or otherwise) a sheep fleece, he may take as much of it as he requires ; and if there be no one to carry it, he may carry it himself for a distance of three yojanas, but if he exceeds this distance, it is nissaggiya pachittiya. 17. If a Bikshu send to a Bikshuni, not related to him, a wool-fleece to be washed, dyed or carded, it is nissaggiya pachittiya. 18. If a Bikshu take with his own hand either gold, silver, or even (copper) coin, or if he instruct another person to receive it for him, or if he keep on saying that there is such an one who may receive it, this is nissaggiya pachittiya. 19. If a Bikshu engage in the purchase or sale of difierent precious substances (jewels) it is nissaggiya pachittiya. 20. If a Bikshu engage in any commercial deahng it is, etc. 21. If a Bikshu store up an old rice bowl (or, it may be, "an extra rice howP'), or if he obtain and preserve one that has not been consecrated and given to him oflicially, he may keep it for ten days, but if beyond that, it is, etc. 22. If a Bikshu having a rice bowl which does not leak, and has fewer than five ligatures, in addition seeks to pro- cure a new one, because of appearances, this is nissaggiya pachittiya. The Bikshu in question ought to go and deliver up this bowl in the midst of the congregation, and then the priests going round from one brother to another, should select the very worst rice bowl, and give the new one to the possessor of it, and let him keep it till it breaks ; this is the rule. 23. If a Bikshu beg for himself cotton thread, and send it to a weaver, who is no relative of his, to be woven into a garment, this is, etc. 24. If a householder or his wife have sent to a weaver, to have a garment woven for a particular priest, and if that priest, before he receive it, go by self invitation to the abode of the weaver, and speak thus: "You must weave this cloth in a very superior way, the garment is intended for me! make it broad, and long, and stout, and woven of an even texture throughout, and I will give you something for your 220 A CATENA OF BUDDHIST extra trouble;" and if this Biksliu give to the weaver any price for the robe, even if it be only a mouthful of rice, and so obtain it, this is, etc. 25. If a priest having first of all given a garment to another priest, afterwards, because he is angry with him, go and take it away, or cause some one else to do so, this is, etc. 26. If a Bikshu, being sick, store up cream, or ghee or butter, or honey or sugar, he may keep it for seven days to cure himself, but if he keep these things longer, then it is, etc, 27. If a Bikshu come to the last month of the spring season, he should request a rain cloke against the wet, and he may begin to wear it in the middle of the month ; if he request this garment before the last month, or begin to wear it before the middle of the month, it is, etc. 28. If a Bikshu, during the last ten days of the three months of summer, be unexpectedly presented with a robe, he ought to receive it, and keep it in store till the time of presenting the robes (at the end of the rainy season), but if kept longer, it is, etc. 29. If a Bikshu, at the end of the three months' summer retreat, after the fifteenth day of the eighth month, think proper to remove to a distant spot, and if there be some danger or apprehension of danger in connection with the spot he has chosen for a residence, the Bikshu thus circumstanced may leave either one of his three garments in a house of the village in which he has been residing ; and if occasion re- quire, may go without it for six nights, but after that it is, etc. 30. If a Bikshu, knowing that a certain party desires to confer goods on the priests, contrives by personal influence to appropriate the property to himself, it is, etc. Venerable ones ! I have thus recited the thirty rules called nassaggiya pachittiya. I now demand of you, vener- able ones ! is this congregation pure or not (three times) ? Venerable ones ! this congregation is pure ; silently, there- fore, ye stand : let it be so ! SCEIPTUEES PROM THE CHINESE. 221 Venerable priests ! These following ninety rules, called pachittiya (requiring confession and absolution), taken from the middle of the Book of Precepts, are to be repeated bi-montlily. THE NINETY PACHITTIYA EULES. 1. If a Bikshu tell a wilful lie, it is pachittiya. 2. If a Bikshu be guilty of slander, it is pachittiya. 3. If a Bikshu be guilty of hypocritical language, etc. 4. If a Bikshu occupy the same lodging as a woman, it is, etc. 5. If a Bikshu occupy for more than two nights the same lodging with a man not yet ordained, it is, etc. 6. If a Bikshu chant prayers with a man not yet ordained, it is, etc. 7. If a Bikshu, knowing that another priest has been guilty of various misdemeanours and sins, speak of them with a man not yet ordained, except by permission of a Sangha-kamma, it is, etc. 8. If a Bikshu, speaking with a man not yet ordained, respecting the laws which are beyond the reach of men (i. e., about Religion), shall say of himself, " I know the Truth : I have gi-asped the Truth." Even if it be true, he is guilty of pachittiya. 9. If a Bikshu preach to a woman beyond five or six sentences, except in the presence of a discreet person, it is, etc. 10. If a Bikshu with his own hand dig the ground or teach a man to do so, it is, etc. 11. If a Bikshu destroy the abodes of disembodied spirits, it is, etc. [I am unable to explain this Rule, unless the Pali throws any light on it, " the cutting of trees, grass, etc., is pachittiya."] 12. If a Bikshu sow strife amongst the Brethren by wil- ful prevarication, it is, etc. 990 A CATENA OF BUDDHIST 13. If a Bikshu rail at or abuse a priest, it is, etc. 14. If a Bikshu take a priest^s bed, stool, coverlet, or cushion, and place it with his own hands on the ground (for his own use), or request some one else to do so, and then go away leaving the article where he put it, without replacing it, it is, etc. 15. If a Bikshu do the same as the above within a resi- dence of priests, it is, etc. 16. If a Bikshu, knowing that some particular place is occupied generally by another priest, go and take it himself, saying, "if he wants me to give it up to him, let him tell me so." If he act thus, when there is no justifying cause, or want of propriety on the part of the other priest, it is, etc. 17. If a Bikshu get angry with another, and dislike his presence in the priests' house, and so forcibly eject him, or get some one to eject him, this is, etc. 18.