The Sin of Poisoning

Original text of Section One of the Upāsaka Five Precepts Sūtra: 复有不以内色。不以非内色。亦不以内非内色。为杀人故。合诸毒药。若着眼耳鼻身上疮中。若着诸食中。若被褥中。车舆中。作如是念。令彼因死。彼因死者。犯不可悔罪。若不即死。后因是死。亦犯不可悔罪。若不即死。后不因死。是中罪可悔。

Explanation: There is also the case of killing without using inner form, without using non-inner form, and without using a combination of inner and non-inner form. For the purpose of killing a person, one compounds various poisons and places them either in that person's eyes, ears, nose, body, or on sores on the body, or in that person's food and drink, or in bedding, or in a carriage, while mentally thinking: "Let him die from this poison." If that person dies as a result, the upāsaka commits an irremediable offense of killing. If that person does not die immediately but later dies as a result of this, it is likewise an irremediable offense of killing. If that person does not die immediately, and later does not die as a result of this, the upāsaka commits a middling, remediable offense.

 Original text: 复有作无烟火坑杀者。核杀弶杀。作阱杀触杀。毗陀罗杀。堕胎杀。按腹杀。推着火中水中。推着坑中杀。若遣令去就道中死。乃至胎中初受二根。身根命根。于中起方便杀。

Explanation: There are also other methods of killing, such as setting a smokeless fire pit to kill, killing with pits (核杀)， killing with traps for small animals, killing by making a pitfall, killing with poisonous drugs, killing by mantra (毗陀罗杀)， killing by abortion, killing by pressing on the abdomen, pushing someone into fire or water, pushing someone into a pit to kill them, or dispatching a person to die along the road—down to the case where, within the mother's womb, the two faculties of the body faculty and life faculty have just been received, and one employs various expedient means to kill. The body faculty refers to the fertilized egg, and the life faculty refers to the manas.