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**Translation**
153
It is not permissible to give alms to monks by providing them with light in a place that was previously dark, by making a hole in a wall or by breaking down a wall, by lighting a gem lamp or a fire. The food that is taken for oneself is permissible. If a monk has inadvertently taken impure food due to a fault of contamination, and has not consumed it, then it is permissible to purify that food and take pure food in the same vessel without washing it. 138/1. There are three types of hearths: 1. *Sंचारिम* 2. A hearth that is built outside for the monk beforehand 3. A hearth that is built outside for the monk at that time. In all three cases, there are two faults in taking food cooked on these hearths: *उपकरणपूति* and contamination. 138/2. The housewife says, "O monk! You do not take alms from a dark place, therefore I have cooked food on an external hearth." Hearing this, the monk should avoid that food. If there is doubt, and upon questioning, the housewife speaks the truth, then the monk should avoid that food as before. 138/3. If a housewife builds a hearth outside for the monks and then thinks, "There are many flies inside the house, and it is also hot. There is air and light outside, and the cooking place is also close to the dining place, so now I will eat my food here every day." If she takes it for herself, then the food cooked there is permissible for the monk. This is the explanation of what is permissible and impermissible regarding contamination. 138/4,5. Making a hole in the wall for light, making a small door bigger, making another door, removing the upper covering or roof, installing a luminous gem, lighting a fire, lighting a lamp - if the housewife says that this has been done for the monk, or even without asking, she tells him that it has been done for him, then such food is contaminated and therefore impermissible for the monk. If the housewife does all these things for herself, then the food there is permissible for the monk, but light and lamp - both these means are impermissible because they involve contact with the *तेजस्काय*. 138/6. If a monk inadvertently or unknowingly takes food after it has been illuminated or made bright, then after knowing, he can purify that food and take another pure food in the same vessel without washing it. 139. There are two types of *क्रीतकृत*: *द्रव्यक्रीत* and *भावक्रीत*. Both have two types each: *आत्मक्रीत* and *परक्रीत*. *परद्रव्यक्रीत* is of three types: *सचित्त*, *मिश्र* and *अचित्त*.
1. *मवृ प. ९४*; *संचारिमा* or *गृहाभ्यन्तरवर्तिन्यपि बहिरानेतुं शक्यते* - a hearth inside the house that can be taken outside for some reason.
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