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**The Nishith Sutra states that it is not necessary to reopen any knot that has been tied according to the rules for the purpose of transcription, as it is well-written. Repeatedly opening and tying the knot is unnecessary carelessness.**
**Two sutras have been given for joining cloth pieces - Thegli and knot. These two (52-53) sutras are related to joining similar clothes. Therefore, here also the context of one stitch and three stitches arises.**
**Faliyan - Torn. It can have two meanings: 1. When accepting new, 2. When torn after taking.**
**When accepting new clothes, if they are less in width or small pieces of less length, then they have to be joined to make them suitable for a sheet etc., which has been instructed in Acharang Sutra Shru. 2 A. 5, U. 1.**
**One should try to take clothes that do not require any joining. Even if necessary, no more than three joins should be made, as many joins can sustain both the Sadhu and Sadhvi.**
**If a Sadhvi needs a sheet of four hands' width and gets a cloth of one hand's width, it can be completed with three joins. Even if pieces of less length than required are available, both the Sadhu and Sadhvi can be sustained with three joins.**
**The word 'Ganthiyan Karei' is used in the previous sutras 50, 51. It contains the atonement related to joining torn clothes by tying a knot.**
**The verb 'Ganthe' is used in sutras 52-53-54. It contains the atonement for joining different cloth pieces of the same kind by stitching.**
**The verb "Gahe" is used in Sutra 55. It contains the atonement for joining heterogeneous cloth pieces.**
**Thus, these sutras contain atonements for joining torn clothes or cloth pieces.**
**There is no atonement for joining similar cloth pieces and there is no atonement for stitching with thread like cloth, because it is the method.**
**There is atonement for joining dissimilar cloth pieces and atonement for stitching with a thread different from cloth, because it is not the method.**
**The atonement for joining by non-method and stitching by method is the same as Sutra 49.**
**Joining heterogeneous clothes - The word 'jati' used in this sutra can be taken as many kinds of clothes. For example - woolen, cotton, sanni, silk etc.**
**There are many kinds of woolen and cotton clothes. Woolen clothes - blankets etc. made from wool of sheep, goat, camel etc. Cotton clothes - muslin, lattha, reja etc. various types of clothes.**