[114] **"Whoever" (yo pana)** means: whoever — of whatever sort … .
**"Bhikkhu"** means: … this is the bhikkhu intended in this meaning.
**"Of various kinds" (nānappakārakaṃ)** means: robes, almsfood, lodging, and medicinal requisites for the support of the sick; even a lump of bath-powder, a tooth-stick, or a thread from a fringe.
**"Should engage in buying and selling" (kayavikkayaṃ samāpajjeyya)** means: if he transgresses thus — "Give this for this; bring this for this; exchange this for this;¹ procure this in exchange for this" — there is an offence of wrong-doing (dukkaṭa). When it has been both bought and sold² — one's own goods having passed into the hands of another, and the other's goods having come into one's own hands — it becomes subject to forfeiture (nissaggiya): it must be forfeited to a Saṅgha, to a group, or to an individual.
"And thus, bhikkhus, should it be forfeited: … 'Venerable sirs, I have engaged in buying and selling of various kinds. This of mine is subject to forfeiture; I forfeit this to the Saṅgha.' … 'should give [it back]' … 'they should give [it back]' … 'I give this to the venerable one.'"
[Editorial footnotes of the Siam Raṭṭha edition, as printed on this page:
¹ M(ora ed.): *gihīpi*; Yu(ropean ed.): *gihī naṃpi*. In "gihīpi naṃ gihissa," the word "naṃ" here is a particle in the sense of *nāma*; the commentary on it says that the meaning is "gihipi nāma gihissa."
² M., Yu.: *denti*.]
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.