177. While some monks and brahmans, while living on food provided by the faithful, make their living by such low arts, such wrong means of livelihood as palmistry, fortune-telling from signs, portents, dreams, marks on the body, and the gnawing of mice, by using a spoon to make offerings of rice husks, bran or grains to the fire god, by reading the fingertips, by house lore, garden lore, by purveying magic charms, by casting out ghosts, by practicing earth-house lore, snake lore, poison lore, rat lore, crow lore, by foretelling the length of someone’s life, by making charms against arrows or by interpreting the cries of animals, the monk Gotama abstains from such low arts, such wrong means of livelihood.
D.I,9 (DN 1)
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