[819] **Free from deceit, rid of malicious speech** — deceit (māyā) is what deceptive conduct is called. Here someone, having engaged in misconduct (duccarita) by body, having engaged in misconduct by speech, having engaged in misconduct by mind, sets up an evil wish for the sake of concealing it: he wishes, "May no one know me"; he intends, "May no one know me"; he utters speech, "May no one know me"; he exerts himself with the body, "May no one know me." Such deceit, deceptiveness, beguiling, deception, fraud, dissembling, evasion, shiftiness, hiding, concealing, covering, covering up, not making plain, not making manifest, masking over, evil-doing — this is called deceit. In whomever this deceit is abandoned, cut off, stilled, quieted, rendered incapable of arising again, burned by the fire of knowledge (ñāṇa), he is called one free from deceit. **Rid of malicious speech**: as to malicious speech (pesuñña), here someone is a speaker of malicious speech … thus, intent on causing division, he introduces malicious speech. In whomever this malicious speech is abandoned, cut off, stilled, quieted, rendered incapable of arising again, burned by the fire of knowledge, he is called one rid of malicious speech, one from whom malicious speech has departed. Hence: free from deceit, rid of malicious speech.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.