Vinaya Texts

SR No.: 007684
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: T W Rhys Davids, Hermann Oldenberg
Publisher: Oxford
Publication Year: 1881
Total Pages: 2523
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 47 MB

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IV, 57. HOUSEHOLDER; RULES FOR A SNÂTAKA.
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51. In the shade or in darkness a Brâhmana may, both by day and at night, do it, assuming any position he pleases; likewise when his life is in danger.
52. The intellect of (a man) who voids urine against a fire, the sun, the moon, in water, against a Brahmana, a cow, or the wind, perishes.
53. Let him not blow a fire with his mouth; let him not look at a naked woman; let him not throw any impure substance into the fire, and let him not warm his feet at it.
54. Let him not place (fire) under (a bed or the like); nor step over it, nor place it (when he sleeps) at the foot-(end of his bed); let him not torment living creatures.
55. Let him not eat, nor travel, nor sleep during the twilight; let him not scratch the ground; let him not take off his garland.
56. Let him not throw urine or faeces into the water, nor saliva, nor (clothes) defiled by impure substances, nor any other (impurity), nor blood, nor poisonous things.
57. Let him not sleep alone in a deserted dwelling; let him not wake (a superior) who is sleeping; let him not converse with a menstruating woman;
52. Medh. and Når. mention a var. lect. for prativâtam, against the wind,' pratisamdhyam, 'in the twilights,' which Nand. adopts.
53. Ấp. I, I5, 20-25; Gaut, IX, 32; Vas. XII, 27; Vi. LXXI, 32-34, 37; Yâgħ. I, 137.
54. Vi. LXXI, 36; Yågñ. I, 135, 137; Gaut. IX, 73. 55. Vi. LXIII, 8; LXVIII, 12; LXXI, 41, 55. 56. Ấp. I, 30, I9; Vi. LXXI, 35; Yago. I, 137.
57. Gaut. IX, 54-55; Vas. XII, 43; Vi. LXIII, 21; LXX, 13; LXXI, 58; Yagñ. I, 138.
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