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ÂKÂRÂNGA SOTRA.
SECOND PART.
THE SEVEN LECTURES 1.
Eighth LECTURE When a monk or a nun wishes to perform religious postures", they should enter a village or a scot-free town, &c.; having entered it, they should not accept a place, even if it is offered, which is infected by eggs or living beings, &c.; for such a place is impure and unacceptable. In this way all that has been said about couches in the Second Lecture) should be repeated here as far as 'water-plants' (II, 2, 1, $ 5). (1)
Avoiding these occasions to sin, a mendicant may choose one of these four rules for the performance of religious postures.
This is the first rule :
I shall choose something inanimate", and lean against it; changing the position of the body, and moving about a little, I shall stand there.
This is the first rule. (2) Now follows the second rule : I shall choose something inanimate, and lean
Sattikao. • Thanasattikkayam, sthånasaptaikakam. 3 Thầnam thaittae.
As a wall, &c.
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