Dighanikaya 2.166

2.166

‘‘Karoto kho, mahārāja, kārayato’’tiādīsu karototi sahatthā karontassa. Kārayatoti āṇattiyā kārentassa. Chindatoti paresaṃ hatthādīni chindantassa. Pacatoti pare daṇḍena pīḷentassa. Socayatoti parassa bhaṇḍaharaṇādīhi socayato. Socāpayatoti sokaṃ sayaṃ karontassapi parehi kārāpentassapi. Kilamatoti āhārupacchedabandhanāgārappavesanādīhi sayaṃ kilamantassapi parehi kilamāpentassapi. Phandato phandāpayatoti paraṃ phandantaṃ phandanakāle sayampi phandato parampi phandāpayato. Pāṇamatipātāpayatoti pāṇaṃ hanantassapi hanāpentassapi. Evaṃ sabbattha karaṇakāraṇavaseneva attho veditabbo.

In ''In one who acts, great king, or causes [another] to act' and so forth: 'in one who acts' means in one who acts with his own hand. 'In one who causes [another] to act' means in one who causes [another] to act by command. 'In one who mutilates' means in one who cuts off another's hands and so forth. 'In one who tortures' means in one who afflicts others with a club. 'In one who causes sorrow' means in one who causes sorrow by taking another's property and so forth. 'In one who torments' means in one who causes sorrow himself or causes others to cause it. 'In one who causes weariness' means in one who causes weariness himself or causes others to cause weariness, through deprivation of food, imprisonment, and so forth. 'In one who trembles, causes to tremble' means in one who himself trembles at the time of trembling while another trembles, and causes another to tremble. 'In one who takes life' means in one who kills a living being himself or causes another to kill. Thus in all instances the meaning is to be understood in terms of doing and causing to do.