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## Ninth Uddeshak
**(He incurs Guruchaumasi Pratikraman)**
**Discussion:** When traveling to these places and returning, food is prepared at the stopover points. The Pratikraman for consuming this food is mentioned here. Because there is a possibility of many faults like auspiciousness, inauspiciousness, and doubt, etc., in consuming food prepared for such journeys.
**Pratikraman for travel during the coronation:**
**19.** A monk who leaves or enters a city where a pure-lineage, crowned Kshatriya king is being coronated, or approves of someone doing so, incurs Guruchaumasi Pratikraman.
**Discussion:** When a coronation is taking place, there is constant coming and going of royal officials and people in the city for various tasks. During such times, a monk should stay in his place and should not go anywhere. Or, he should not go to or from that direction. There is a possibility of auspiciousness, inauspiciousness, and many faults due to the crowded nature of the place while traveling.
**Pratikraman for frequent entry into the capital:**
**20.** A monk who leaves or enters, or approves of someone leaving or entering, any of the ten cities declared as capitals, where pure-lineage, crowned Kshatriya kings have been coronated, twice or thrice in a month, incurs Guruchaumasi Pratikraman. These cities are well-known by their names: 1. Champa, 2. Mathura, 3. Varanasi, 4. Sravasti, 5. Saketapur, 6. Kampilya, 7. Kaushambi, 8. Mithila, 9. Hastinapur, 10. Rajagriha.
**Discussion:** Twelve Chakravartis have been in these ten capitals. Shantinath, Kunthunath, and Aranath, these three Chakravartis were in the same Hastinapur city. It is forbidden to go to or from these capitals more than once a month. Pratikraman may not be incurred for going a second time due to a specific reason, but it is definitely incurred for going a third time.
There is a possibility of many faults like suspicion of being a spy by royal officials, etc., when going to or from these large capitals more than once a month. In previous scriptures, the king...