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The path is full of thorns. In special circumstances, leather equipment can be used if there are snakes, severe cold, illness, or if one is suffering from a disease, is delicate, or has wounds on their feet. But not in the excretory passage.
The daily offering of food, donations, etc. is prohibited. Praising the donor before or after receiving alms. Going to the houses of householders before the time for alms. Going for alms with a non-Jain, with a householder, with a necessary and unnecessary person. Entering the study ground and the recitation-listening ground with them. Traveling from village to village with them. Using pleasing food and water, eating unpleasing food, eating leftover food without asking the ascetic who owns it. Accepting and using food from a Sagarika. Going for alms to a Sagarika's house without going inside. Violating the remaining time of the bed-stretcher period and the rainy season. Not keeping the bed-stretcher in the shade while getting wet in the rain. Taking it elsewhere a second time without permission. Traveling without returning the bed-stretcher to the one who gave it. Not searching for the bed-stretcher if it is lost. Not even copying a small portion of the text. Thus, the minor monthly atonement for various activities in the second chapter has been explained.
The prohibition of the things prohibited in this chapter is also mentioned in the Brihatkalpa, Pracharanga, Dashavalika, Pindaniyukti, etc. The description of the minor monthly atonement for all these atonement-worthy places has been done in the second chapter. This also sheds light on all these topics in a concise and meaningful way. The third chapter
The third chapter has 80 sutras. There are 1438-1554 verses of commentary on them. From the first to the twelfth sutra, it prohibits asking for food, etc. in a loud voice in a rest house, a traveler's inn, a resting place, or a householder's house, etc., going back to the householder's house again and again for food, etc. if he refuses, eating and drinking in a communal feast, cleaning, massaging, and washing the feet, and cleaning, massaging, and rubbing the body. It prohibits cutting overgrown hair and nails, covering the head while traveling, defecating in a cremation ground, in a mine, where coal, etc. is produced, in a fruit-gathering place, in a place where vegetables, etc. are kept, in a grove, and in a place where sunlight does not reach. It also describes the minor monthly atonement for the ascetic who performs these activities.
In addition to the present Pragama, it is found that many things are relevant for the Shramanas in the Aavashyakasutra, Acharangasutra, Dashavaikalikasutra, Prashnavyakarana, etc.
The fourth chapter
The fourth chapter has 128 sutras. There are 1555-1894 verses of commentary on these sutras. This chapter describes how to subdue the king, the king's protector, the city protector, the all-protector, the village protector, the state protector, the country protector, and the border protector, and how to praise their qualities to subdue them. Eating grain, etc. with awareness. Consuming milk, etc. without the permission of the Acharya, etc. Going for alms without going to the establishment. Entering the shelter of the non-ordained without proper procedure. Placing a stick, etc. in the path of the non-ordained. Creating new strife. Rekindling extinguished strife. Laughing out loud. The one sitting next to,