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BOOK II, LECTURE 3, LESSON 1.
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be obtained a stool, bench, bed, or couch, or pure, acceptable alms; that there have not come nor will come Sramanas and Brâhmanas, guests, paupers, and beggars; that the means of existence are not small, &c., they may remain in such a village, &c., during the rainy season. (3)
Now they should know this : After the four months of the rainy season are over, and five or ten days of the winter have passed, they should not wander from village to village, if the road contains many living beings, &c., and if many Sramanas and Brâhmanas, &c., do not yet travel? (4)
But if after the same time the road contains few living beings, and many Sramanas and Brâhmanas, &c., travel, they may circumspectly wander from village to village. (5)
A monk or a nun wandering from village to village should look forward for four cubits, and seeing animals they should move on by walking on his toes or heels or the sides of his feet. If there be some bypath, they should choose it, and not go straight on; then they may circumspectly wander from village to village. (6)
A monk or a nun wandering from village to village, on whose way there are living beings, seeds, grass, water, or mud, should not go siraight if there be an unobstructed byway; then they may circumspectly wander from village to village. (7)
A monk or a nun on the pilgrimage, whose road (lies through) places belonging to borderers, robbers, Mlekkhas, non-Aryan people?, half-civilised people,
He should in that case stay in the same place for the whole month Mârgasîrsha, where he was during the rainy season.
• According to the commentary mlekkha (milakkhu) means
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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 |