1C4 PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY. 



Book 2. — The Pure Practices. 



Book 2 (see §107) is an appendix to book 1, which treats of Morality 



1 Preface. — The monk whose moraUty is kept undefiled 



by fewness of wishes, contentment, and so on. 

 Is thereby estabhshed in the "three ancient orders of nobiUty"; 

 But to be able to attain the fourth, that of delight in meditation, 

 He must observe the Pure Practices 



2 The Exalted One has sanctioned 13 such practices. 

 Practices 1-2 concern clothing (see §102) 



1. Refuse-rag-practice or par) sukulikanga 



2. Three-robe-practice or tecivarikanga 

 Practices 3-7 concern food 



3. Alms-practice or pindapatikafiga 



4. House-to-house-practice or sapadanacarikanga 



5. One-sitting-practice or ekasanikahga 



6. One-bowl-practice or pattapindikailga 



7. No-more-practice or khalupacchabhattikailga 

 Practices 8-12 concern dwelling-place 



8. Forest-practice or araiinikanga 



9. Tree-root-practice or rukkhamulikanga 



10. Open-sky-practice or abbhokasikanga 



11. Burning-ground-practice or sosanikanga 



12 Lodge-anywhere-practice or yathasanthatikanga 

 Practice 13 concerns bodily posture 



13. Never-lie-down-practice or nesajjikanga 



3 Buddhaghosa's outline of this book: eleven topics (in expanded form) 

 Topic 1: etymological import (attha) of the name of each Practice 



[All 13 practices (each by itself in order) are treated together, §4 to §8] 

 Topic 2: their common characteristic (lakkhana), function (rasa), etc. 



[All 13 practices (in a lump — no single one specified) are treated, §9] 

 Topic 3 : the manner of adopting them (samadana) 

 Topic 4 : the manner of observing them (vidhana) 

 Topic 5 : the grades [of strictness] (pabheda) in observing them 

 Topic 6 : what constitutes a breach (bheda) of their observance 

 Topic 7: the advantages (anisarjsa) of observing them 



[All these 5 topics (each by itself in order) are treated together 



for each separate one of the 13 practices, §10 to §92] 

 Topic 8: of the 3 categories, good [and bad and indifferent] (kusalattika), 



the Pure Practices fall under only the first and third [§94] 

 Topic 9: discussion of "dhuta etc." [§95]. The etceteral term includes 



dhutavado, dhutadhamma, dhutahgani, and "Who profit by them?" 

 Topic 10: the Practices as reckoned so as to make the smallest number etc. 

 Topic 1 1 : the Practices as reckoned so as to make the largest number 



