The Buddha presents a repeated fivefold teaching on a jain ascetic, etc. in this grouped discourse.
PTS 3.276–3.277“Pañcahi, bhikkhave, dhammehi samannāgato nigaṇṭho … muṇḍasāvako … jaṭilako … paribbājako … māgaṇḍiko … tedaṇḍiko … āruddhako … gotamako … devadhammiko yathābhataṁ nikkhitto evaṁ niraye. Katamehi pañcahi? Pāṇātipātī hoti, adinnādāyī hoti …pe… surāmerayamajjapamādaṭṭhāyī hoti. Imehi kho, bhikkhave, pañcahi dhammehi samannāgato devadhammiko yathābhataṁ nikkhitto evaṁ niraye”ti.
Sattarasamaṁ.
Sikkhāpadapeyyālaṁ niṭṭhitaṁ.
Reference Translation by Bhikkhu Sujato (CC0).
“Pañcahi, bhikkhave, dhammehi samannāgato nigaṇṭho … muṇḍasāvako … jaṭilako … paribbājako … māgaṇḍiko … tedaṇḍiko … āruddhako … gotamako … devadhammiko yathābhataṁ nikkhitto evaṁ niraye.
“A Jain ascetic … disciple of the shavelings … a matted-hair ascetic … a wanderer … a follower of Māgaṇḍiya … a trident-bearing ascetic … a follower of the unobstructed … a follower of Gotama … a performer of rituals for the gods … with five qualities is placed in hell as if delivered there.
Katamehi pañcahi?
What five?
Pāṇātipātī hoti, adinnādāyī hoti …pe… surāmerayamajjapamādaṭṭhāyī hoti.
They kill living creatures, steal, commit sexual misconduct, lie, and consume intoxicants of beer, wine, and liquor.
Imehi kho, bhikkhave, pañcahi dhammehi samannāgato devadhammiko yathābhataṁ nikkhitto evaṁ niraye”ti.
With these five qualities they’re placed in hell as if delivered there.”
Sattarasamaṁ.
Sikkhāpadapeyyālaṁ niṭṭhitaṁ.
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