15(5)Stains
"Bhikkhus,there are these eight stains.
What eight?
(1)Non-recitation is the stain of the hymns.
(2)The stain of houses is lack of upkeep.
Anutthanamala ghara.Lit.,"Houses have lack of initiative as their stain."Mp:"The stain of houses is the lack of initiative,the absence of energy."Mp-t:"This is said because a house goes to ruin if one does not repeatedly take the initiative in repairing what has decayed and so forth."(3)The stain of beauty is laziness.
(4)Heedlessness is the stain of a guard.
(5)A woman's stain is misconduct.
(6)Miserliness is a donor's stain.
(7)Bad unwholesome qualities are stains in this world and the next.
(8)A stain graver than this is ignorance,the very worst of stains.
These,bhikkhus,are the eight stains."
Non-recitation is the stain of the hymns;
The verses are at Dhp 241-43ab.Dhp 243cd adds:"Having abandoned these stains,be stainless,O bhikkhus"(etam malam pahatvāna nimmala hotha bhikkhavo).the stain of houses is lack of upkeep;the stain of beauty is laziness,heedlessness is the stain of a guard.
A woman's stain is misconduct,miserliness is a donor's stain;
bad unwholesome qualities are stainsin this world and the next.
A stain graver than these is ignorance,the worst of stains.[196]