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the stomach, chest, thighs etc., the organs affected with the particles of food and water tossed from the palm,
the Patra gets absorbed in the supreme truth
for some moments keeping his eyes half-opened.
Kayotsarga (meditation posture) is abandoned; the seth gives the smooth, soft, light, beautiful peacock-feathered equipment of restraint in atithi's both the hands marked with the sign of fearlessness,
with his submissive hands.
Creatureless water, which can be used
for eight praharas (twenty four hours),
and after that becomes defective, in Kamandalu, the equipment of sauca (cleanliness),
is filled
not for quenching the thirst,
but for cleaning the hands and the feet
before the study of scripture and after attending natural calls.
The neighbouring public is standing in the compound
346:: Silent Soil
