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BOOK II, LECTURE 2, LESSON 2.
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bark, trees, wood or charcoal are being worked, houses on burial-places, rooms for retirement near the place of sacrifice", empty houses, hill-houses, caves, stone-houses, or palaces. He should say to those reverend persons who live in such-like places as workshops, &c., together with other guests :'0 long-lived one! you sin by living in a place frequented by other sectarians.' (8)
4. Here, in the east, &c. They accordingly give, &c. (all as in § 8 down to) palaces. If the mendicants come there while the other religious men do not come there, they sin by living in a place not frequented by other mendicants. (9)
5. In the east, west, north, or south there are faithful householders, viz. a householder or his wife, &c., who will speak thus : It is not meet that these illustrious, pious, virtuous, eloquent, controlled, chaste ascetics, who have ceased from sexual intercourse, should dwell in a lodging which is adhâkarmika :: let us give to the mendicants the lodgings which are ready for our use, viz. workshops, &c., and let us, afterwards, prepare lodgings for our own use, viz. workshops, &c.' Hearing and perceiving such talk, if the reverend persons frequent such-like lodgings, viz. workshops, &c., and live in them which are ceded by other people (they should be warned): 'O long-lived one! that (lodging is infected by the sin called) vargakriya.' (10)
6. Here, in the east, &c. (see 8 all down to) they give lodging-places for the sake of many Sramanas and Brâhmanas, guests, paupers, and beggars, after having well counted them, in workshops, &c.
Sântigriha.
. See note 5 on p. 81.
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| SR No. | 007677 |
| Book Title | Saddharma Pundarika |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | H Kern |
| Publisher | Oxford |
| Publication Year | 1884 |
| Total Pages | 2546 |
| Language | English |
| Classification | Book_English |
| File Size | 46 MB |