Part 1b.2c.i - The divisions: The actions of body

Cutting off life is intentional killing of another. Related is endangering life through beating and such. Taking what is not given is stealing another’s goods. Related to this is getting them by using fraud.
Transgressions in sex are with persons committed to another. Related is trying to do this with persons who are improper.*

*= Eg. relatives, or monks and nuns.

Everything upwards from maliciously killing worms and insects, knowingly cutting off their lives, and striking them, chopping them up, and so forth is included in cutting off life.

Taking what is not given is stealing the wealth of others. Related is using fraud to have them given.

Sexual transgression, refers to another’s spouse, close relatives, those not of competent mind, or deliberately having sex at an improper place or time. Included are intercourse in forbidden parts of the body, such as the hands.

The Abhidharmakosha says:

Cutting off life, as we rightly think, is killing others.
Taking what is not given makes another’s wealth one’s own;
Including getting hold of it by force or deceit.
Forbidden desires comprise the four kinds of wrongful sex.

The commentary on the Investigation of Beings, ’gro ba rnam ’byed) says:

What is like the actual thing, is related to it. Having arisen similarly, it is like it; for example beating someone with a stick or relying on magical ceremonies to the same end.