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## Verse 476.4.47
**The Path of Restraint**
**Filtering Water:** 8; According to other beliefs, abstinence from alcohol (1), meat (2), honey (3), and five anuvratas are the basic virtues.
**Doubt:** What are the seven vices?
**Solution:** Jana (gambling), alcohol, meat, prostitution, hunting, theft, and adultery are the seven vices, which are forms of great sin. One should abstain from them. Their detailed explanation should be learned from Basunandi Shravakachar and other texts.
To protect one's Samyaktva, one should not listen to the scriptures of other beliefs and keep one's intellect pure and clear.
In addition to this general practice, the Darshan Pratima Ghari should also pay attention to the following: ... One should also abstain from radish, nani (a type of vegetable), marnal (a type of water lily), garlic, eggplant, safflower greens, watermelon, and suran (a type of yam). One should abstain from the following five types of flowers: arani, varan, sohjana, karira, and kanchanara. One should abstain from salt, oil, or ghee-soaked fruits after two muhurtas, from achar (pickles), murabbas (jams), and from the utensils of those who consume butter and meat. One should abstain from water kept in leather vessels, from tal (a type of palm), and from hing (asafoetida). While eating, one should abstain from seeing bones (asthi), alcohol, leather, meat, blood, pus, feces, urine, and dead animals. One should abstain from eating discarded food, from seeing Chandala (outcast) people, and from hearing their words. One should abstain from food that is stale, has a foul smell, and has a changing taste. One should abstain from buttermilk and yogurt after sixteen praharas (a unit of time). One should also abstain from pan (betel leaf), medicine, and water at night. This is the practice of the Darshan Pratima.
The second Pratima is called the Vrat Pratima. It involves the observance of twelve vows.
**"He who is free from the three impurities (maya, mithya, and nidana) and observes the five anuvratas and the seven shila vrata (nine virtues and four shiksha vrata) is considered a holder of the Drattik position (second Shravak) by the Ganadhar Devas."** [Ratnakaranda Shravakachar]
The nature of the twelve vows has been explained earlier. They are not mentioned here due to the repetition of the same information.
**Doubt:** What are the three Gunavrata and four Shikshavrata called Shilavrata?
1. Charitrapahuḍ Ga. 21 Tika 1
2. Ratnakaranda Shravakachar Shlok 65
3. Charitrapahuḍe Gatha 21 Tika
4. Charitrapahuḍ Gatha 21 Tika