15. Minor matters (Khuddaka) (PLI-TV-KD15)

This is its key:

Against a tree, and against a post, and against a wall,
on a rubbing-board (using a) gandha(-bba hand instrument), a string,
having plunged into, a scrubber, scab,
and age, ordinary mode with the hand.
And also ear-ornaments, chains,
ornamental strings of beads for the throat should not be worn,
ornamental girdles, bangles, armlets, bracelets, finger rings,
Long, with a comb, with a snake’s hood instrument,
with the hands, with beeswax, with oily water,
sores in a mirror and bowl of water, ointment, with paste and chunan,
They smeared, and painting the limbs, painting the faces, both these,
disease of the eyes, and the mountain top, long-drawn, intoning, outside,
Mango peels, with whole (mangoes), a snake, and he cut off, sandal wood,
various kinds, bases of bowls, gold, thick, jags,
Carved, was spoiled, nasty smelling, in the heat, were broken, by a solid bench,
plaster flooring, grass (mat), piece of cloth, a stand, and on a wicker stand,
A bag, and a strap at the edge, thread made for tying,
a peg, and on a couch, and on a chair, on a lap, in a sunshade, opened,
A gourd, a water-pot, a skull, odd bits, waste-tub,
split open, handle, gold, feathers and rind, a tube,
And yeast, barley-meal, powdered stone, beeswax, gum,
misshapen at the corners, tying, uneven place, on the ground, old and was (not) enough,
A mark, and a false thread, unwashed, damp, sandals,
fingers, and a thimble, a small bowl, a bag, tyings,
In the open air, low to the ground, and also a piling, they were inconvenienced,
they fell off, powdered grass, a smearing inside and out,
Whitewash and treatment with black colouring and red chalk,
wreathwork, creeperwork, swordfish teeth, strips (of cloth)
And a bamboo and cord for robes—the Leader allowed (these).
And they went away having left, a kaṭhina frame was split,
Was twisted out of position, and on to a wall, they went along taking in a bowl,
a bag, and a thread for tying, having tied, sandals,
On a road water that was not allowable, strainer, little piece of cloth,
regulation water-pot, two monks, the Sage reached Vesālī,
Double (water-strainer), filter, he allowed a strainer.
By mosquitoes, very ill through sumptuous (foods) and Jīvaka,
Place for pacing up and down in, bathroom, in an uneven place, low to the ground,
three pilings, they were inconvenienced, stairs, balustrade, railing,
In the open air, powdered grass, a smearing inside and out
whitewash and treatment with black colouring and red chalk
Wreathwork creeperwork swordfish teeth strips (of cloth)
bamboo and cord for robes, and it may be built high to the ground,
A piling, staircase and balustrade, a door, doorpost and lintel,
a hollow like a mortar, a small upper projection, and a post, a “monkey’s head,”
A pin, a (stick used as a) bolt, a keyhole, and pulling through, a cord,
a facing, and a pipe for steam, and in the middle, clay for the face,
And nasty smelling, it scorched, a receptacle for water, a saucer,
and it did not make them sweat, swampy, to wash, one may make a drain,
And a chair, about a porch, work, gravel, stones, a drain,
naked, on the ground, when it rained, three coverings there,
A well, and it fell in, by means of a creeper, by means of a waistband,
a well-sweep, hand-wheel, a wheel, many vessels were broken,
Copper, wooden, strips of animals’ hides, a hall, grass, a lid,
a trough, a pool, a fence, swampy, and about a drain,
Cooled down, a tank, and stale, with a curving roof,
for four months, and lay down to sleep, and a piece of felt, and it should not be allotted,
Chased (cushions), a stand, eating they would share one,
Vaḍḍha, and Bodhi, tread on it, little jar, (clay foot-) scrubber, broom,
Stone pebble and scum as a foot-rubber,
fan, palmyra-whisk, and also a mosquito fan, a chowry,
Sunshade, and without, in a monastery—the three—with string, agreement,
ruminator, lumps of boiled rice, long nails, they cut, painful fingers,
Down to the blood, and to the height, the twenty, long-haired,
razor, whetstone, razor-case, piece of felt, a barber’s equipment,
They trimmed beards, they let them grow, goat’s beard, four cornered arrangement,
on their chests and on their stomachs, whiskers, removed the hair on their bodies,
Illness, scissors, a sore, long, and with a piece of crystal,
grey hair, stopped, and various kinds of copper goods, a store,
And lolling, a bandage, strings, tickets, (waist-)band,
those of many strands, like the head of a water-snake, like tambourine drums, those like chains,
Palmyra whisk, hundred jungle-ropes, having put on householders’ upper garments,
loin cloths, double carrying-pole, toothwood, on flicking,
Lodged in the throat, and a forest, counterfire, a tree, and by an elephant,
Yamelu (and Tekula), they learnt metaphysics, they taught it,
Worldly knowledge, he sneezed, good luck, and he ate,
affliction of wind, and it was soiled, nasty smelling, painful, shoes,
They were ashamed, nasty smelling (un-) covered, and they did it here and there,
nasty smelling, cesspool, it fell in, high to the ground, and about a piling,
Staircase, balustrade, inside, painful and shoes,
outside, a tub and wood, and a stick, uncovered,
A hut tor the privy, both a door as well as a doorpost and lintel,
a hollow like a mortar, an upper projection, a post, and a “monkey’s head,”
A pin, a bolt, a keyhole, and a hole for pulling (cord) through as well as
a cord, a smearing inside and out, whitewash and black colouring
Wreathwork creeperwork swordfish five strips of cloth (design)
a bamboo and a cord for robes, weak through age, a fence,
And about a porch, as before, and gravel, flagstones,
(water) remained, a drain, and also a vessel, a saucer,
Painful, shame, a lid, and they indulged in bad habits.
He allowed copper goods a weapon being excepted.
A sofa and divan, a wooden bowl and shoes being excepted—
the Great Sage allowed all (other) goods made of wood.
And the Truth-finder, a (clay foot-) scrubber and an earthern vessel having been excepted,
compassionate, allowed also all (other) goods made of clay.
The character of whatever matter, if equal to the preceding,
even if it is brief, is known from the context in the key.
Thus the hundred and ten matters in the Minor Matters in the discipline
are based on what is dhamma indeed—also there is help for the well behaved.
The expert in discipline is well trained, friendly in mind, very well behaved,
bringing light, steadfast, worthy of honour, one who has heard much.

The Book of the Discipline was translated by I.B. Horner.

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