[25] Or again he might say: "Whereas some honorable ascetics and brahmins, while eating food given in faith, make their living by wrong livelihood, by such low arts (tiracchānavijjā) as these — namely: rites of propitiation (santikamma), rites for the fulfillment of vows (paṇidhikamma), rites addressed to spirits (bhūtikamma), rites of earth-house lore (bhūrikamma), rites of virility (vassakamma), rites of impotence (vossakamma), preparing building sites (vatthukamma), consecrating building sites (vatthuparikaraṇa), ritual rinsing, ritual bathing, offering oblations; administering emetics and purgatives, purgatives for the upper part of the body, purgatives for the lower part, purgatives for the head; ear-oils, soothing eye-drops, nasal treatments, ointments, counter-ointments; lancet-treatment of the eye, surgery, the treatment of children; the administering of root-medicines, and the binding on and removal of herbal remedies — the ascetic Gotama refrains from wrong livelihood by such low arts."
Thus indeed, bhikkhus, might an ordinary person (puthujjana) speak when speaking praise of the Tathāgata.
This, bhikkhus, is that trifling, inferior matter, a matter of mere virtue (sīla), by which an ordinary person, speaking praise of the Tathāgata, might speak.
The Great Section on Virtue (Mahāsīla) is concluded.
English translation from the Pali (Siam Raṭṭha edition) — under review, not for citation.