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CENSURE OF GOING THROUGH A DIFFICULT PATH
26. A bhikshu or bhikshuni while going to the house of a layman in order to seek alms should find if there are humps and depressions, tilled rows of a farm, ditches, bamboo partitions, parapet walls, closed outer gates, bolts, bolt-holes and other such obstructions on the path. If it is so, a disciplined ascetic should take to another available path and avoid that straight or shortest path. The omniscient has said that that is cause of bondage of karmas.
Going on that difficult path the ascetic will slip or stumble or fall down. On slipping or stumbling or falling his body may be smeared with faeces, urine, phlegm, mucus, vomit, bile, pus, semen and blood. If it so happens by chance, that ascetic should not wipe his smeared body clean once or repeatedly with sachit (contaminated with living organism) or damp sand, sachit clay, sachit rocks or stones or lumps, worm infested wood, wood having eggs of insects or cob-webs. He should neither once nor repeatedly wipe and mop or rub and apply like a paste. He should also not dry it in the sun once or repeatedly.
That ascetic should first beg for a straw, leaf, peace of wood, pebble or other such thing that is free of sachit dust. After getting it, he should retreat to a solitary place; look for a spot that has coincidentally been turned achit (uncontaminated with living organism) by fire or otherwise or any other such uncontaminated spot, properly inspect and clean it; and then wipe, mop, rub and dry his body clean.
(According to aphorism 3, Chapter 4 or Nisheeth Sutra an ascetic can use achit water to clean himself.—Hindi Tika by Acharya Shri Atmaramji M., p. 825)
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Acharanga Sutra (Part 2)
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