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## Translation:
**280] It should be understood that the meaning of these [Vyavahar Sutra] is that all those who are like Parsva [i.e., those who have taken refuge in the Jain faith] are worthy of compassion and if they wish to join the assembly of the virtuous after attaining right understanding, they can be included in the Gachchha after assessing their eligibility. **
**31. If a monk leaves the assembly and lives in another gender due to some specific circumstance and wishes to rejoin the assembly after the cause is over, then he should be allowed to live in the same assembly after rejoining. There is no need for any atonement like Diksha-Chhed or Tapas for him, except for the censure for changing gender. **
**Discussion:** If a monk leaves the assembly due to the influence of passions and adopts another gender, and later wishes to rejoin his own Gachchha, then he can be included in the Gachchha only after giving him atonement like Diksha-Chhed or the original initiation. However, the meaning of the prohibition of atonement like Diksha-Chhed etc. in the present Sutra is that if a monk, due to unbearable troubles, changes his physical gender to protect his inner restraint, or if the king of a country is hostile to the Jain religion and the non-scriptural monks, then he changes his gender for the time he has to stay in that area or to travel through that area. Later, if he wants to live with the monks of the Gachchha after adopting his original gender, then he is not given any atonement like Chhed or Tapas for changing gender, except for the censure for changing gender. The statement in Bhagavati Sutra, Chapter 25, Verse 7, about the Chhed-Upastapaniya-Charitra in the case of a householder's gender and another gender, is also in this context. Here, in the Sutra, the word 'Parapasand' is used along with the word 'Padim', yet this is not the 'Bhikshu Pratima' mentioned in the Sutra, but it should be understood as a specific style of using words in the ancient tradition. For more information, see the discussion of Sutra 23. **
**32. If a monk leaves the assembly due to lack of restraint and wishes to rejoin the same assembly after attaining right understanding, then he should be allowed to live in the same assembly after rejoining. There is no need for any atonement like Chhed or Tapas for him, except for the censure for leaving the assembly. **