Dighanikaya 25.61

25.61

Saṃbhakkhetīti saṃkhādati. Asanivicakkanti vicakkasaṇṭhānā asaniyeva. Idaṃ vuttaṃ hoti ‘‘asanivicakkaṃ imassa dantakūṭaṃ mūlabījādīsu na kiñci na saṃbhuñjati. Atha ca pana naṃ samaṇappavādena samaṇoti sañjānantī’’ti. Evaṃ apasādeti avakkhipati. Idaṃ titthiyavasena āgataṃ. Bhikkhuvasena panettha ayaṃ yojanā, attanā dhutaṅgadharo hoti, so aññaṃ evaṃ apasādeti ‘‘kiṃ samaṇā nāma ime samaṇamhāti vadanti, dhutaṅgamattampi natthi, uddesabhattādīni pariyesantā paccayabāhullikā vicarantī’’ti. Lūkhājīvinti acelakādivasena vā dhutaṅgavasena vā lūkhājīviṃ. Issāmacchariyanti parassa sakkārādisampattikhīyanalakkhaṇaṃ issaṃ, sakkārādikaraṇaakkhamanalakkhaṇaṃ macchariyañca.

“Devours” means munches down. “A thunderbolt discus” means a thunderbolt shaped like a discus. This is what is meant: “This row of teeth of his is like a thunderbolt discus; it does not fail to devour anything among roots, seeds, and so on. And yet they recognise him as an ascetic by the popular report of ‘an ascetic’!” In this way he disparages and puts down. This is said with reference to sectarians. But with reference to a monk, the construction is this: he himself is a bearer of ascetic practices; he disparages another in this way: “Why do these who call themselves ascetics say, ‘We are ascetics’? They do not have even a mere ascetic practice; seeking food assigned by ticket and the like, they live abounding in requisites!” “One of coarse livelihood” means one of coarse livelihood whether by way of naked ascetics and the like, or by way of ascetic practices. “Envy and stinginess” means envy, characterized by resentment at another’s attainment of honour and the like; and stinginess, characterized by intolerance of another receiving honour and the like.