Dighanikaya 5.338

5.338

Tattha sakaṇṭakoti corakaṇṭakehi sakaṇṭako. Panthaduhanāti panthaduhā, panthaghātakāti attho. Akiccakārī assāti akattabbakārī adhammakārī bhaveyya. Dassukhīlanti corakhīlaṃ. Vadhena vāti māraṇena vā koṭṭanena vā. Bandhanenāti addubandhanādinā. Jāniyāti hāniyā; ‘‘sataṃ gaṇhatha, sahassaṃ gaṇhathā’’ti evaṃ pavattitadaṇḍenāti attho. Garahāyāti pañcasikhamuṇḍakaraṇaṃ, gomayasiñcanaṃ, gīvāya kudaṇḍakabandhananti evamādīni katvā garahapāpanena. Pabbājanāyāti raṭṭhato nīharaṇena. Samūhanissāmīti sammā hetunā nayena kāraṇena ūhanissāmi. Hatāvasesakāti matāvasesakā. Ussahantīti ussāhaṃ karonti. Anuppadetūti dinne appahonte puna aññampi bījañca bhattañca kasiupakaraṇabhaṇḍañca sabbaṃ detūti attho. Pābhataṃ anuppadetūti sakkhiṃ akatvā paṇṇe anāropetvā mūlacchejjavasena bhaṇḍamūlaṃ detūti attho. Bhaṇḍamūlassa hi pābhatanti nāmaṃ. Yathāha –

Therein, “beset by thorns”: beset by the thorns of bandits. “Highway harassment”: highway harassers, highway robbers is the meaning. “One who acts improperly”: one who would perform what ought not to be done, who would act unrighteously. “The bandit-post”: the post of bandits. “By execution”: either by killing or by beating. “By imprisonment”: by confinement with shackles and the like. “By loss”: by deprivation; the meaning is: by a penalty enforced in this way: “Take a hundred, take a thousand.” “By censure”: by subjecting them to censure after shaving the head into five tufts, sprinkling them with cow dung, tying a degrading yoke to the neck, and so forth. “By banishment”: by expelling them from the realm. “I will eradicate”: I will properly eradicate through method, means, and cause. “The remnants of those killed”: those left behind among the dead. “Exert themselves”: they make an effort. “Let him provide”: when what was given is insufficient, the meaning is: let him give once again everything—seeds, food, and agricultural implements. “Let him provide capital”: without taking witnesses and without recording it on a leaf, let him give capital for goods as a non-repayable grant; this is the meaning. For capital for goods is called pābhata. As he said: