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3. He will not keep more than (a) 500 five hundred carts for conveyance to various villages and towns, and (b) 500 five hundred bullock-carts for the purpose of carrying commodities.
4. He will not keep more than four passenger-boats, and four cargo-boats for his use.
Besides this, with regard to Bhogopabhoga-parimana vrata (a vow of limitation of the number and quantity of the articles of bhoga (which can be used only once) and upa-bhoga (which can be used repeatedly) for daily use, Ananda Stavaka limited the use to a certain number of clothes, shoes, conveyances, tooth brushes, garlands, anointments, ornaments, and to a certain weight of quantity of boiled drinking water, oils, ointments.
Similarly, with regard to food and drink-articles, Ananda Śravaka applied limitations to the variety, number, quantity etc. of rice, wheat, sweet-meats, pulses, ghee, vegetables, fruit-syrups, condiments, drinks, fruits, savouries etc.
Also, Ananda Śrāvaka carefully witheld himself from the undermentioned four kinds of anarthadanda (acts deserving of punishment) namely,
1. He should abstain from evil contemplation. 2 He should not do careless acts, like slander. 3. He should not give destructive weapons to others, and 4. He should not instruct people in sinful deeds.
Śramana Bhagavāna Mahavira, then, told him-You should always carefully avoid the undermentioned five aticāra (transgress: ions) in the practice of the vow, as they are destructive to the Right Faith, which you have acquired in the True Religion. They are:
1. Śarikā (doubt)-i.e, raising of unnecessary doubts in the true nature of the principles and practices of the religion as to whether such things can possibly exist or not.
2. Kānkṣā—an eager desire for the adoption of evil doctri
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