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GUNA VRATAS.
Sixth Vow.
Dig-parimâna vrata. Dig means direction. The vow means the choosing to determine the distance up to which and not beyond which you will go or send your men. The limitation of the area in which you will live, including all directions, or motion, up, down, etc.
In all activities of a layman there is destruction of life and therefore when he fixes his area he proclaims to all things beyond that area that he shall not injure them. This vow helps the first and also the other anuvratas.
If we will work out the knowledge obscuring karmas we can know of the things going on abroad without actually going there (compare the avadhi means of knowing in the early part of the karmas).
Aticharas.
If we transgress the limits through forgetfulness, or by accident, or by subterfuge, it is atichāra; otherwise transgressing the limits is breaking the
VOW.
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