[23] Or again, whereas some honorable ascetics and brahmins, while subsisting on food given in faith, make their living by wrong livelihood (micchājīva), by low arts (tiracchānavijjā) of this kind — that is to say: predicting "There will be good rainfall; there will be poor rainfall; there will be plenty of food; there will be scarcity of food; there will be security; there will be peril; there will be disease; there will be freedom from disease"; or counting on the fingers (muddā), accounting (gaṇanā), computation (saṅkhāna), the composing of poetry (kāveyya), and worldly speculation (lokāyata) — the ascetic Gotama refrains from wrong livelihood by low arts of this kind. Thus indeed, bhikkhus, might an ordinary person (puthujjana) speak, when speaking praise of the Tathāgata.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.