Uttarajjhayana 197.1.88_2

197.1.88_2

kesīgoyamao niccaṃ | tammi āsi samāgame /
suyasīlasamukkaṃso | mahatthatthaviṇicchao ||88||

The eight articles of the creed are the Samitis and the Guptis; there are five Samitis and three Guptis. (1)
The Samitis are: 1. îryâ-samiti (going by paths trodden by men, beasts, carts, &c., and looking carefully so as not to occasion the death of any living creature); 2. bhâshâ-samiti (gentle, salutary, sweet, righteous speech); 3. êshanâ-samiti (receiving alms in a manner to avoid the forty-two faults that are laid down); 4. âdâna-samiti (receiving and keeping of the things necessary for religious exercises, after having carefully examined them); 5. ukkâra-samiti (performing the operations of nature in an unfrequented place). The three Guptis (which are here included in the term Samiti in its wider application) are: 1. mano-gupti (preventing the mind from wandering in the forest of sensual pleasures by employing it in contemplation, study, &c.); 2. vâg-gupti (preventing the tongue from saying bad things by a vow of silence, &c.); 3. kâya-gupti (putting the body in an immovable posture as in the case of Kâyôtsarga). (2)
The eight Samitis are thus briefly enumerated, in which the whole creed taught by the Ginas and set forth in the twelve Aṅgas, is comprehended. (3)