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preservation of their body from the attacks of cold or heat, mosquitoes, flies etc, they require clothes, blankets etc.
Besides, ascetics must have a dwelling-place where they can fearlessly perform their religious ceremonies.
Ascetics are house-less. They have no tithi or parva as days of festivities. They renounce worldly pleasures, and look to the welfare of their own Soul. They are therefore, cailed a-tithi (guests). The giving of (1) Food and drink materials 2. Pätra ( utensils-bowls ) 3. Clothes, blankets etc. and 4. Dweclling-place to a-tithi (wandering guests) is called A-tithi-samvibhāga Vrata.
People usually practise this vrata on the break-fast day of the Pausadha vrata. They give food and drink-materials and offer pătra, clothes etc to the Sadhus, and then, they take their break-fast.
Transgressions of the Atithi samvibhäga Vrata. सचित्ते क्षेपणं तेन पिधानं काललंघनं
मत्सरोज्यापदेशश्च तु/शिक्षाव्रते स्मृताः ॥१॥ 1. Sacitté kşépaņam téna pai-r-dhậnam kāla-langhanam
Matsaro' anyapadéśasca turyè sikşā vraté smritah
1. Placing food and drink-materials etc on a place full of vermin, on un-boiied water, on fire etc at a time when a Sadhu Muniräja is expected to come for alms 2. Covering food and drink-materials, with materials full of vermin. 3. Preparing food and drink-materials, after the time for going on a begging tour has expired 5. Giving such things out of pride He may not give anything under the pretext that the article did not belong to him. These five are the transgressions of the Atithisamvibhäga Vrata-the Fourth Śikṣa Vrata---
A Devout Sravaka. एवं व्रतस्थितो भक्त्या सप्तक्षेत्र्यां धनं वपेत् । दयया चातिदीनेषु महाश्रावक स उच्यते ॥१॥
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