[234] "But, Master Gotama, is there any other sacrifice that, compared with this threefold accomplishment of sacrifice with its sixteen accessories and with this regular giving as a propitious sacrifice (anukūlayañña) … involves less expense and less undertaking, yet is of greater fruit and greater benefit?"
"There is, brahmin, another sacrifice that, compared with this threefold …"
"But what, Master Gotama, is that other sacrifice that, compared with this threefold …?"
"Brahmin, when one with a confident mind undertakes the training rules (sikkhāpada) — abstention from killing living creatures, abstention from taking what is not given, abstention from sexual misconduct, abstention from false speech, abstention from liquor, wine, and intoxicants that are a basis for heedlessness — this, brahmin, is a sacrifice that, compared with this threefold accomplishment of sacrifice with its sixteen accessories and with this regular giving as a propitious sacrifice …, involves less expense and less undertaking, yet is of greater fruit and greater benefit."
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.