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VRATAS.
owner, even if it be a trifling straw lying in the street, and which therefore he can pick up at will.
14) 'Maithuna-viramana-vrita' or the vow of refraining from sexual intercourse, and observing strict celebacy. Not only the union but even a touch of the fair sex is enough to soil the vow, and prove one's failure.
(5) 'Parigriha-viramana-vrita' or the vow of refraining from keeping any property which can be called his own. Thus he [the monk] has no possessions or belongings of his own.
There are some nine kinds of property: viz., (1) wealth, (2) grain, (3) estate, (4) household things, (5) gold, (6) silver, (7) haser metals, (8) menials and (9) earth.
Even while strictly observing these great vows, the monk is yet under the influence of five kinds of 'pramāda? or negligence, and hence this 'Sarva-virati-guna-sthāna? is also termed 'Pramāda-guna-sthāna.
The above- mentioped negligence or rather negligent activities are treated to full extent in the next (711) Guna-sthana
7th Guna-Sthāna.
OR A-pramāda-guna-sthāna. The word 'pramāda' means 'negligence'; and 'a-pramāda' (where 'a' means 'not') means non-negligence, (i. e., care and caution).
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