[417] **"Whoever"** means: whoever, of whatever sort … **"Bhikkhu"** means: … this is the bhikkhu intended in this sense as "bhikkhu."
**"Overcome"** means: impassioned, full of desire, with a mind (citta) bound in attachment.
**"Perverted"**: a lustful mind is also perverted; a corrupt (hating) mind is also perverted; a deluded mind is also perverted. However, it is the lustful mind that is intended in this sense as "perverted."
**"Woman"** means: a human female, not a female yakkha, not a female peta, not a female animal; one who is intelligent, competent to understand what is well spoken and badly spoken, what is lewd and what is not lewd.
**"In the presence of a woman"** means: close by a woman, not far from a woman.
**"Sensual gratification for himself"** means: sensual pleasure for himself, for his own sake, with his own intent, service (ministering) to himself.
**"This is the foremost"** means: this is the foremost, this is the best, this is the chief, this is the highest, this is the most excellent.
**"She who"** means: whether a khattiya woman, or a brāhmaṇa woman, or a vessa woman, or a sudda woman.
**"One such as I"** means: whether a khattiya, or a brāhmaṇa, or a vessa, or a sudda.
**"Virtuous"** means: one who abstains from killing living beings, abstains from taking what is not given, abstains from false speech.
**"Living the celibate life"** means: one who abstains from sexual intercourse.
**"Of good character"** means: by that virtue and by that celibate life he is one of good character.
**"With this act"** means: with sexual intercourse.
**"Should minister"** means: should indulge (in it).
**"Connected with sexual intercourse"** means: bound up with the act of sexual intercourse.
**"Saṅghādisesa"** means: … therefore too it is called "saṅghādisesa."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.