Dighanikaya 3.280_3

3.280_3

Kudālapiṭakanti kandamūlaphalaggahaṇatthaṃ kudālañceva piṭakañca. Gāmasāmantaṃ vāti vijjācaraṇasampadādīni anabhisambhuṇanto, kasikammādīhi ca jīvitaṃ nipphādetuṃ dukkhanti maññamāno bahujanakuhāpanatthaṃ gāmasāmante vā nigamasāmante vā aggisālaṃ katvā sappiteladadhimadhuphāṇitatilataṇḍulādīhi ceva nānādārūhi ca homakaraṇavasena aggiṃ paricaranto acchati.

‘A spade and a basket’ (kudālapiṭakaṃ) means both a spade and a basket for the purpose of gathering bulbs, roots, and fruits. ‘Near a village’ (gāmasāmantaṃ vā) means: unable to attain the consummation of knowledge and conduct and the like, and thinking that it is difficult to secure a livelihood by farming and the like, in order to deceive the multitude, having made a fire-hall near a village or near a market town, he remains attending the fire by way of making oblations with ghee, oil, curd, honey, molasses, sesame seeds, rice, and so forth, and with various kinds of wood.