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## The Tenth Chapter
**With Hindi Commentary**
**343**
There are food halls, lime kilns, trading centers, timber contracts, coal contracts, forest contracts, and factories for making reeds and other types of grass. Go to all the presidents who are working under orders and tell them this.
**Commentary:** This sutra states that the king, sitting on his throne and calling together the officials of the kingdom, began to speak in this way:
"O beloved people of the gods! Go and tell all those who are in charge of the following places outside the city of Rajagriha: places where men and women meet, places of rest adorned with Madhavi and other vines, gardens adorned with leaves, flowers, and fruits, and which are the refuge of many living beings, rest houses, places of debate, places of judgment, assembly halls, temples, meeting halls, water reservoirs for the summer, prosperous shops, trading centers, food halls, lime kilns, large trading centers, timber contracts, coal contracts, forest contracts, and factories for making reeds and other types of grass, and the places where they are sold. Go to all the presidents or officials who are working under orders, and (who are well-known for their authority and obedience to orders) who are the rulers there, and tell them this.
This sutra clearly shows that there is no fixed place for the sadhus. They can reside wherever they wish.
The sutrakar Maharaj explains the king's order in the following sutra:
"Thus, O beloved people of the gods! The king sends this message. When the Samanas, the Bhagavan Mahavira, and the other Tirthankaras, while traveling from village to village, fulfilling their desires, following the path of the ancients, living happily and comfortably, practicing restraint, and controlling their minds, wish to reside in a place, then you should allow them to do so. This is the command of the Bhagavan Mahavira."